For the most part I have to agree with the above. The reviewer doesn't really provide an accurate / balanced view of the two technologies.
If you are interested in asp.net but the thought of using ADO.Net leaves you a little cold, just pick up one of the many frameworks that help simplify. Two worth mentioning are Microsofts Data Access Application Block for the EnterpriseLibrary and Nhibernate (an open-source port of the popular Java O/R mapping framework). They are both pretty cool and defiantely worth a play
Also, asp.net 2.0 (due for release fairly soon I think) will ship with a host of DataAdapters that you can use for automatic databinding including Datasource, DataSet, Xml Document, Object etc. Rumour has it they are adapters others for Excel, Sharepoint services etc too which should be fun. I guess you could think of them as CFQUERY and steroids. Be interesting to see how Macromedia responds in the next release of Coldfusion.
Really wish asp.net was getting a version of Model-Glue though. Master Pages are ok I guess but .... merr :(
Cheers, Pete (aka lad4bear)
Note: The above is just stuff I posted cos I had five minutes to spare and I thought some of you might be interested
On 19/10/05, Nathan Strutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've got issues with other parts of it as well. For the part you asked
about, yes, ADO is more powerful than cfquery, and yes, it does take
longer to get used to and to learn the advanced things you can do with
it. Of course raw JDBC is more powerful and takes longer to learn than
cfquery as well. If you take the time to learn and put into practice,
you can make your ADO.NET more robust than CF. The question is, is it
worth it? That's a matter of opinion.
John, .NET using COM objects is about the same as CF, you instantiate
it, use it and destroy it as quickly as possible. As with all systems,
the less you leave your little application world, the more robust your
application will run.
The comparison sheet really is old, to iterate what Mark M said, plus
the writer's lack of experience with .NET shows through.
On 10/18/05, Mark Mandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's also a really old comparison... probably came about just when v.6
> first hit the shelves.
>
> And at the end of the day, language more often than not simply boils
> down to personal preference and best tool for the job. Nothing more.
>
> Mark
>
> On 19/10/05, John Ottenbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yes and no.
> >
> > To me it is kind of a surface level comparison which doesn't do anyone any
> > good.
> >
> > For example the Data Manipulation in CF can be done either implicitly or
> > directly (myquery.fieldname[rec]).
> >
> > Also the extendibility comparison seems to focus on COM objects, which was
> > fine in CF <= 5.0 but nowadays CFMX can be extended using Java, not to
> > mention CFC's.
> >
> > The database speed comparison is BS, mainly because the details of the
> > database setup, querys used, machine speed are not detailed. Maybe he was
> > clueless and didn't know he was developing .NET on a speedy resource rich
> > server, but the CF code was on a dog of machine. Who knows?
> >
> > Oh well, I'm not trying to stick up for CF, but I wouldn't use that page to
> > decide between the two.
> >
> > /rant
> >
> > John
>
>
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