...... and let's talk about CFFORM. Again, there may be methods, or
components available, for implementing form validation in ASP, but it's the
sheer ease of use and speed of coding that makes, IMHO, CF so much better
than ASP.
When you code script after script for clients to be able to edit their
content, the last thing you want to do is enter all that Javascript for the
validation, but using CFFORM etc has drastically reduced the time spent on
those scripts.
I didn't get to experiment much with CDO as we purchased ASPMail to do all
the emailing, but I don't recall the ability to pass a query result
directly to it (or CDO) in order to send the message to many email
addresses in one hit.
In terms of what you can achieve, I think they'd be pretty close, although
there were some things in an email from Greg Saunders that I think are
unavailable in ASP. But overall, I'm sure you'd be able to do pretty much
the same with either. Where CF really shines is the simplicity of doing
various tasks while the same thing in ASP can be so time consuming.
At 15:08 11/05/00 -0400, you wrote:
> > I am not sure I have found CFMODULE, CFMAIL, CFPOP, CFOBJECT
> > type tags in ASP. Of course if you wanted to be really
> > text-editor cool I suppose you could just spend a fist full
> > of time making com objects to do all those things....
>
>Not necessary. While I don't want to sound like an ASP advocate, most of
>that stuff is essentially already in ASP as well.
>
>CFMODULE allows you to build user-defined functions. You can do that
>directly within your ASP scripts, or include other ASP scripts which contain
>the function or functions you want to use.
>
>CFMAIL and CFPOP analogs within ASP are called Collaborative Data Objects
>(CDO), which you can use to talk to your Exchange server. Granted, I don't
>think these will as easily allow the use of internet standards like SMTP and
>POP, but in an all-MS environment, this may not be an issue.
>
>Finally, CFOBJECT is not nearly as powerful or flexible as creating COM
>object instances within ASP. Everything you do in ASP requires instantiating
>one object or another, and I just wish CFOBJECT let me work with COM objects
>with the ease that the Server.CreateObject method does in ASP. CF does have
>an advantage in that you can use CFOBJECT to talk with CORBA and Java
>objects in addition to COM, though.
>
>Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
>http://www.figleaf.com/
>voice: (202) 797-5496
>fax: (202) 797-5444
>
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