{"id":12,"date":"2004-10-15T16:33:46","date_gmt":"2004-10-15T20:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=12"},"modified":"2004-10-15T21:43:33","modified_gmt":"2004-10-16T01:43:33","slug":"microsoft-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2004\/10\/15\/microsoft-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft dot what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/chronicle\/photos\/VSHell.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/chronicle\/photos\/VSHell-thumb.jpg\" align=right vspace=10 hspace=10 width=\"200\" height=\"164\" alt=\"image\"\/><\/a>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.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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 &#8211; it&#8217;s no less than a freakin&#8217; nightmare.  I felt quite stupid &#8211; It looks like KDeveloper (or vice-versa)???  I couldn&#8217;t even figure out how to connect the stupid Visual Studio project to an IIS server without using &#8220;Frontpage Server Extensions&#8221;.  ugh! choke! gasp&#8230;  your killin&#8217; me here.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;Microsoft Guy&#8221; to get into VS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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