Enterprise Web Solutions with ASP.Net
I attended a training class on developing Enterprise Web Solutions with ASP.Net on 4/13/2004. The instructor was Keith Nicholson from
developerLabs.net and he's also the President of the
Oklahoma City .Net Users Group.
The only new subjects covered, that I personally hadn't been exposed to before, were Microsoft's Content Mangement Server, Commerce Server, and BizTalk.
After attending the class and having received a demo of Sharepoint from Microsoft a few weeks ago, I'm left wondering, if and how these products could be used together.
Sharepoint has the most features out of the 3 content products from Microsoft, but it lacks the more detailed News or Article content handling of Content Management Server and the shopping cart features of Commerce Server.
If all three were able to be used together, it would give the feeling of a complete solution. If anyone knows how well they do or don't work together, please let me know.
As for BizTalk, I've heard so many different views from various developers that I don't know which would be the consensus. Is it good or is bad?
The class really just gave a high level overview of the three technologies, but for those new to ASP.Net it gave a lot of needed information on how to be productive with ASP.Net.
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About dwalker
David Walker has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as: Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winner Communications (ESPN.com) and IBM Global Services. At the age of 14, he began his application development ambitions with a Commodore 64, BASIC, and a 300 baud modem. Even at that early age, he primarily focused on two specific application types: multi-user communities and database applications.
His hunger to learn as much as possible about development lead him through courses such as DBase III, DBase IV, Pascal, C, C++, Java, and several in UNIX. He started his development career first doing heavy processing with Access and VBA, then moved on to VB 3, Oracle, and Delphi. Visual Basic was one environment that remained constant for many years, including his very first .NET projects performed in Visual Basic.NET.
After working several years on very high end internal Corporate applications, the consultant company he was working for, sought out his ideas for actual software products that could be packaged and sold. He had already developed several prototypes of a dynamic portal application, before portals even became popular, so this became the logic decision and he became the Director of Product Development. Under his direction, a team of developers and graphic artists, took a skinning approach before that become popular, and completed the core portal application, and continued on to developer 15+ add-on modules, including things such as: Help Desk Ticket Systems, Change Control, Records Management, Human Resources, and many more applications. Eventually, it spun off into it's own separate company as KnowledgeGEAR, a complete intranet in the box solution.
Having worked as a consultant, he has had a experience with a very wide range of applications and architectures, at one time, even converting several Fox Pro and GW-Basic applications to VB 6 and ASP. His early training of Unix and the C language and years of experience with JavaScript, lead him very quickly to C#, where he has remained focused ever since.
He is the current President of the
Tulsa Developers .NET user group.. He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005. He is currently pursuing his MCDBA and then on to MCSE.