Apart from the obvious (web server or hosting provider that will accommodate
your Rbase / Oterro drivers installation), you won't need anything else. I
would go ahead and dive into VB with gusto, but I believe you would be best
to adopt the VB.net approach (you can get the beta2 VB.net development
environment free download or S&H for the CD, keeping in mind, I would not
install a beta on any machine that is your primary development machine. You
cannot predict that the Beta could be excised successfully or overwritten by
the final version). VB.net allows you to start a project as either a
standard Windows application or a Web based application and after that
selection, the process in nearly identical (from my reading, not from
experience). You create the forms and they are rendered as html at runtime
from the compiled project that runs on the server. No web classes to mess
with, and all the events and procedures are programmed just like the Windows
environment (with the events and procedures tied to the form). Pretty
slick. But you can also just go ahead with VB6 and follow the updates on
VB.net at www.devx.com as I do and any new application you are developing,
follow the model to make it as easy as possible to upgrade later to VB.net.
mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Grimshaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 4:36 AM
Subject: Re: RBWIN, Moving a simple app to the Internet
> G'day Mike,
>
> I'm getting closer every day to having to do an Internet accessible
> database and have listened to your advice re Tango vs VB with interest.
>
> I'm preparing to dust off my VB primer and make some forays into it.
>
> Apart from VB, Oterro and R:BASE, what else will I need to be able to
> access my BizMan database via the net (albeit with a new interface)?
>
> How do I tell what I will have to change regarding my programming
> paradigm? (I have heard different developers express disdain for
> other's methodologies and am keen to start off on the right foot.)
>
> Warmest regards,
>
>
> Tom Grimshaw
> coy: Just For You Software
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>
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