Today I looked real hard into the possibility of using Visual Basic dot Net for the new Dillon Supply intranet, primarily because we utilize MS SQL so heavily. I was thinking it would be nice to just create and maintain a new MS SQL database on an existing server. Then I quickly saw how much Microsoft really sucks at conforming to web development standards.
I’m not too bad with MS SQL Enterprise Manager so how weird could it be? Could the Visual Studio interface get any more cumbersome? For someone like me coming from a background of Perl and PHP edited mostly in Dreamweaver – it’s no less than a freakin’ nightmare. I felt quite stupid – It looks like KDeveloper (or vice-versa)??? I couldn’t even figure out how to connect the stupid Visual Studio project to an IIS server without using “Frontpage Server Extensions”. ugh! choke! gasp… your killin’ me here.
Not for me. I will load MySQL for Windows and head down the path of simplicity and conformity. Now I know why these dot net guys come interviewing with their guns loaded for Visual Studio. You really have to be a “Microsoft Guy” to get into VS.