{"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. Then I quickly saw how much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2004\/10\/15\/microsoft-what\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft dot what?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}