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> Wwhich should I be looking to use - Cold Fusion or ASP? If both of these are
> no good, which solution for NT/IIS 4.0 would work well to provide a stable
> platform and a good development base.
I've used both ColdFusion and ASP on NT, though mainly the latter. The
little I did with CF gave me the impression that it was easier to use than
ASP. ASP work needs real-life, honest-to-goodness programmers. What you
are basically doing is writing VBScript to run on IIS, using ADO to get at
data and other frameworks to do other things (like send email). It's code,
code, code. Not that it's difficult code, but you have to be a programmer
to Do Stuff.
CF uses templates that are somewhat easier to handle for simple tasks,
like enumerating records in a table. You can add processing logic if you
want, but you don't have to. It's like MS's IDC technology, if you're
familiar with that (has that died?). You can Do Stuff without being a
programmer (within limits), although you can write the code you need as
well.
The reason I use ASP right now is because the tools are cheaper. That's
basically it. The Web server extensions you need for ASP come with, e.g.,
Vinterdev. I work at home as well as in the office and (sometimes)
off-site dog-and-ponies. I can set up an environment under Win95 with PWS
and ASP extensions and will run on any desktop or laptop. I can create
database sites on my vanilla PC at home that will work when I upload them.
All I need to do is edit an ODBC profile (FileDSNs work best) a little
bit. I can have real database driven sites on a laptop for demos.
(Actually, I use a combination of FrontPage extensions and ASP. FP does
many simple tasks, like search engines and email forms. I use ASP where I
need to do some database stuff.)
Don't know whether CF can be installed on, e.g., PWS. Haven't checked it
out.
Hope this helps.
Kieran
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