If C# is used for ecommerce..

[Greg]

How can C# be used for a website ?
Would the person viewing a site need to have the .NET framework
installed ?
What other technologies would need to be used ?
Would a database server be needed for dynamic content ?

[Tom Porterfield]

Greg wrote:

How can C# be used for a website ?

C# can be used in the code behind the ASP.NET pages.

Would the person viewing a site need to have the .NET framework
installed ?

If only HTML is being sent to the client then the person viewing the site
would only need a web browser.

What other technologies would need to be used ?

On the client - none. On the server, besides IIS and the .NET framework,
anything else would depend on the requirements of the application.

Would a database server be needed for dynamic content ?

Not necessarily. Often dynamic content data is stored in a database, but it
doesn't have to be there.
--
Tom Porterfield

[meetranjeesh]

Greg wrote:

How can C# be used for a website ?
Would the person viewing a site need to have the .NET framework
installed ?
What other technologies would need to be used ?
Would a database server be needed for dynamic content ?

Here below are answers for your queries.

How can C# be used for a website ?

C# is one amoung the languages that can be used in dotnet framework.
While creating websites (asp.net applications), C# can be used as the
code behind language for ASP.Net pages to handle the logic. With ASP,
we were using asp scripting to make use of asp objects where as here
you can use C# for the same purpose.

Would the person viewing a site need to have the .NET framework
installed ?

Since the end user gets only the html contents, it is not required to
have dotnet installed on end users PC.

What other technologies would need to be used ?

To make web application, from dotnet side, you need to use ASP.NET with
any code behind languages(C#, VB.NET, VC.NET etc) with iis webserver.

Would a database server be needed for dynamic content ?

You can have DB servers. Well you can even use any other sources like
text files, Xml files to read out and display to the web page.

[Greg]

So does Visual Studio (ASP.NET) does not create HTML content except for
online forms ?

[meetranjeesh]

Greg wrote:

So does Visual Studio (ASP.NET) does not create HTML content except for
online forms ?

ASP.NET is one type of application that you can create in Visual Studio
Dotnet.
While rendering the contents to the browser, the server process
converts the asp.net code results to html. It does not have to create
html contents, if its not meant to display inside browser.

- Ranjeesh

[Mark Rae]

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So does Visual Studio (ASP.NET) does not create HTML content except for
online forms ?

ASP.NET can create pretty much anything you like - doesn't have to be forms.
Can be text, images etc...

[Greg]

Mark Rae wrote:

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So does Visual Studio (ASP.NET) does not create HTML content except for
online forms ?

ASP.NET can create pretty much anything you like - doesn't have to be forms.
Can be text, images etc...

But if you were making that sort of web page with text and images
(unless the content were dynamic) why would you want to use ASP and C#
atall ?

[Tom Porterfield]

Greg wrote:

>
But if you were making that sort of web page with text and images
(unless the content were dynamic) why would you want to use ASP and C#
atall ?

Unless you are doing some server side processing, or need the flexibility of
some of the ASP.NET webform controls, or use some of the configuration
options available in .NET, then probably you wouldn't. If your pages are
just static HTML with some CSS and javascript, then there is no need to
create an ASP.NET application.
--
Tom Porterfield

[Mark Rae]

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Mark Rae wrote:

>"Greg" <im*****@hotmail.co.ukwrote in message
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So does Visual Studio (ASP.NET) does not create HTML content except for
online forms ?

ASP.NET can create pretty much anything you like - doesn't have to be
forms.
Can be text, images etc...

But if you were making that sort of web page with text and images
(unless the content were dynamic) why would you want to use ASP and C#
at all ?

No reason whatever!

Even though your post includes "ecommerce" in its title, you could still
develop a perfectly valid ecommerce website with nothing but HTML and
JavaScript. PayPal integration, e.g., is possible via the submission of
hidden fields...

However, without server-side functionality, I think you'll find ecommerce
pretty hard work...

[Greg]

Is C# (or your language of choice) embedded inside the ASP or do you
generate the ASP with a C# program ? What mix of HTML, XML, XHTML,
ASP, C#, Javascript etc is in these scripts ?

[Mark Rae]

"Greg" <im*****@hotmail.co.ukwrote in message
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Is C# (or your language of choice) embedded inside the ASP
or do you generate the ASP with a C# program ?

There's no ASP here - it's all ASP.NET - it's vitally important that you
understand the difference between ASP and ASP.NET... They are very, very
different...

What mix of HTML, XML, XHTML,
ASP, C#, Javascript etc is in these scripts ?

Again, when you refer to "scripts", what do you *actually* mean...?

Do yourself a huge favour and get a copy of this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/ASP-NET-2-Du...e=UTF8&s=books

and read it twice.

[Greg]

Mark Rae wrote:

There's no ASP here - it's all ASP.NET - it's vitally important that you
understand the difference between ASP and ASP.NET... They are very, very
different...

It looked to me like C# was embedded in the ASP.NET which is really
horrible if you are used to neat C#, C++, java etc.

What mix of HTML, XML, XHTML,
ASP, C#, Javascript etc is in these scripts ?

Again, when you refer to "scripts", what do you *actually* mean...?

The ones you (the developer) edit / create in the IDE, the final
rendered ones that are downloaded at the client end
and any others that are used in the dev process like maybe a DOM file
or an SQL script ?
What are the options ?

Do yourself a huge favour and get a copy of this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/ASP-NET-2-Du...e=UTF8&s=books

and read it twice.

OK, but beyond the basic online type applications, is it practical to
develop client server system (like a workflow system) with this
technology. The reason I ask this is because alot of web apps do not
appear as data rich as your traditional multi user database / desktop
apps.