Most of what you are talking about is not a function of ASP.NET, but of editors such as Visual Studio.NET.
If you have ever worked with .NET code for a website that was not written in VS.NET you would see the same thing you see in every other language. Don't mistake the tools for the platform. The Platform you choose is as limiting as you make it. VS.NET comes with a number of pre-built things, a number of which I have had problems with. MS introduced things to web developers that they had never really used (I speak broadly here, don't be offended). People were not familiar with separating code from interface; it seems fast and easy to do it that way. And for small applications it may be. I get in this "one thing is better than the other" argument all the time with people. Before you can claim one is better than the other, first look at where the pros come from, is it from the platform or from the tools? If it is from the tools that just means somebody took some time and developed some things for you to use with their platform. Don't confuse the two, because they are not the same. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:01 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: RE: RE: RE: Microsoft plots Macromedia coup against Java > > Well, you can still use COM, and it won't break for strange reasons, such > as in CF. > > Although CFMX's CFCs are good, and having Web Services are even better, > there's still problems with datatypes that CFMX has trouble with. Not to > mention custom datatypes. Is everything in CF going to have to be a > structure? Gawd, I'd just like to have a freaking hashtable in CF. > > ASP.NET has the very convenient events when a page is loaded, etc. You > can therefore place most, if not all, your logic at the top of the page. > I know you can hack this in CFMX using <cfsavecontent>, but it's nice in > ASP.NET in that MS has acknowledged that, yes, it's nice to have your > logic in one place and here's a way for you to do it. > > Also, you can pretty well write all your display code using built-in > server side code. This is more akin to traditional development - I don't > literally write options in a select box in Java Swing, for example. But > this is what happens on the web. > > Furthermore, let's talk about the built-in functionality that ASP.NET has. > One of the biggest (if not the biggest) feature about CF is how "built-in" > a lot of stuff is. So now that ASP.NET has a bunch of built-in stuff, why > is that suddenly considered a con? > > And, you know when a user's session is terminated in ASP.NET. CFMX > _still_ doesn't have this. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
