Hi Robert, > I really liked the new blog page and the way it displays in html as > per my comment added today, however what about that 255 char limit? <g>
The 255 char limit is the default size for a character field of an ECO class. In my first article, I *write* that I resize it to 1 of 2Kb, but apparently, I never actually did, since when I finished deploying the application (last week), it turned out that the Posts can be 4Kb in size, but the comments only 255 characters. Sorry about that ;-) I will change that, but I have to modify the model, regenerate the database and then redeploy, and although that should only take a few minutes, it does involve my development machine which I now use for some other projects, so it may be a few days or weeks before the comment size limit is turned into 2Kb. > Also, can this be done just using Delphi 2005 dev and simple ASP.Net or is > ECO really necessary? You can write a Weblog using anything, I'm just building it as an ECO II case study, and for fun. I've written five articles about it now (published on the free Bitwise Magazine website - see also http://www.drbob42.com/ECO) and plan to write a few more. All using ECO II, I'm afraid. But you can truly do similar things with "plain" ASP.NET, or even anything else. I just didn't do that ;-) > I'm updating my site right now in preparation for some new releases > and would like to try this myself! I certainly cannot afford either > the time or money for ECO for what little I could use it however. You can download the source code for the project with the articles (although the latest version is not available, yet), and it's just freeware. You do need the Architect editions of Delphi, so you may not think of it as freeware ;-) > What exactly does it provide over and above ASP? Not much. If you look at http://www.drbob42.com/training you see an ASP.NET application where I sell Delphi 2005 courseware manuals. That site is similar in style, but uses only ASP.NET (and the design and implementation will be desribed in detail in my "Advanced ASP.NET" manual - almost finished). So you don't need ECO, it's just easier to design the data model ;-) Groetjes, Bob Swart (aka Dr.Bob - www.DrBob42.com) -- Bob Swart Training & Consultancy (eBob42) - Borland Technology Partner Delphi 2005 PDF manuals available from http://www.drbob42.com/training __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
