Rob - A few clarifications. I think that when Tony indicated that he was accessing the DB using ADO.NET, he needed some kind of direct interaction that the API did not provide or he was accessing another DB for other reasons. The broader point of his email was how you could continue to use ASP in the .NET environment without using all of the framework, and some of the pros and cons of doing so.
That said, basic access through the API is still performed with ADO or ADO.NET. When Tony converted, he kept a lot of his ASP, which meant he was doing data access throught the COM API, which is using ADO. If he had converted to ASP.NET, he would have been using the .NET API and the data access would be accomplished using ADO.NET. Of course, this is all under the hood, so the messy bits are hidden. Now that I have put words in his mouth (hopefully, I got the point of your email, Tony!!), maybe he can chime in and set the record straight. As for the solution we build, we used the .NET API exclusively to interact with the MCMS DB, so we did not need to ADO.NET directly. As I noted earlier though, ADO.NET is being used under the hood. We were accessing other DBs for a variety of reasons, and in those places, since we were implementing a full .NET solution, we used ADO.NET. Sincerely, Bill Schneider Director, Content Management Ness Technologies www.ness-usa.com 703-464-0133 x125 703-464-0138 -----Original Message----- From: Rob Styles [mailto:mmmmmrob@;yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 4:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [cms-list] MSCMS 2002 Bill, Tony, We have just implemented a serious degree of user control using asp.net and MSCMS2002. We have given control over layout, look & feel of individual controls, site hierarchy, textual content and more to the business. We have controls that generate images dynamically based on business user settings, allowing business users to manage text, layout, colour etc within grahpics. We have extended MSCMS2002 to allow the business user to control the site hierarchy by adding pages, rather than channels and postings, as children or as siblings of any page. My confusion is this... During all of this work at no point did we have to go to the database directly. If you are really using MSCMS2002 for managing the content, why do you need ado or ado.net? mmmmmRob __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2 -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma. -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
