thanks for the replies. i just don't like dealing with these unofficial controls to use google maps with ASP.NET/C#. i think i'm just going to stick with good ole PHP.
On Oct 1, 12:23 pm, "warden [Andrew Leach - Maps API Guru]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 1, 3:12 pm, lrt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > still no thoughts on this yet???? > > Since you insist... > > > > > > should i even be using ASP.NET?? > > > is there a "recommended" language to use for server-side programming > > > with the API? > > > is there an official .NET control from google?? > > The API is all client side, with asynchronous calls to Google services > for geocoding and routing, and an asynchronous method for downloading > data from the hosting domain. As such, ASP.NET seems to me to be > unhelpful at best, as it deliberately mixes client and server > processing. > > Most people posting here use LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) > rather than Windows/IIS (Is that WINS? Windows, IIS, .NET, SQL > Server). Using open-source products is probably on grounds of cost, > but that software helps separate client and server functionality. I > confess an interest here as I'm dead-set against .NET and its > humungous pages, session control and general bloat. > > Others may have different opinions. If you know C# and ASP.NET and can > get it to work for you, go for it. But I reckon you will find it > easier to build straightforward web pages with supporting server > scripts along the lines of the LAMP model than a native .NET > application. > > I don't know of any official .NET controls from Google. They *do* > provide rather a good search engine, and using that may help find one! > > Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
