[CLUE-Tech] ASP alternative.

[greg at knaddison.com]

Quoting David Anselmi <anselmi at americanisp.net>:
> 
> Here's an example.  In ASP, a few lines of code run a database query and 
> a few more hook it into a "datagrid control" (most of that can be done 
> drag and drop but that isn't too important).
> 

I worked with ASP a bit with Visual Interdev in 1999.  I got my boss to buy
Visual Interdev and we installed IIS/Windows and our department used it because
of these special controls and wizards that do all your work for you.

We used them for 2 days.  And found they didn't work very well.  So we were
stuck hardcoding things in ASP by hand which looks just like PHP or ColdFusion
or...and Visual Interdev became a very glorified text editor for us.

Remember multi-tasking in Windows95?  It was great for marketing and beta, but
not so great when people tried to actually use it.  I think you should make sure
that the Datagrid and other controls like that work and are flexible enough and
don't cause 60KB web pages before you commit a project to them or look for an
alternative solution with similar "features".

Greg