Pointers for a beginner

[_eclipsed_]

Hello people-
I'm a 16 y/o high school student. My asst. principal approached me last year about coding a program for them to use to easily keep track of the student time-for-time record. At the time I didn't have the know how of what needed to be done but know I have a little more experience and I'm thinking I might give it a shot. The records will be stored in an Access 97 DB that I will need to connect to from the VB app. I have some ideas of what I'd like to do:
1) Be able to control the entire DB file
from the app w/o having to use Access.

2)Generate ASP reports for any student.

3)Our school is networked. I want all
computers to be able to *see* the reports
but not be able to write to them.

That's all the info I can think of right now. This all should be on an NT box. I have no experience w/ coding for DB's and I'm not sure if I'll want to use the Data control or some other method such as ADO or DAO. Please feel free to make suggestions or comments. Thanks.
-Adam
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[Clunietp]

You've got alot of work ahead of you adam! To do ASP pages you need an NT Server/IIS box, use VBScript and HTML to generate ASP pages and can't use the data control to get your data. If you already know ASP, learn ADO instead of DAO for this type of project (MS will improve ADO, DAO is fading out of their plans) and get a book. I always recommend the SAMS books, [Language/Technology] in 21 days/24 hours

Good luck!

Tom

[_eclipsed_]

Tom or to anyone else that reads this: IIS is part of NT sever..correct? I mean it does come packaged w/ the server even if I have to install it. I'd planned on using VBScript because I'm more familar w/ it than JavaScript and I'll be working in a mostly MS enviroment on both the back and front-end so I shouldn't have to worry about that whole compatibility deal. I'm going to have to learn ADO and most of ASP and becomoe alot better in VB but the challange is what I'm after and I think I def. have one. Thanks again guys.

[Clunietp]

Hi! IIS is part of NT Server if you have checked the option to install IIS during NT Server setup. If you want to use VBScript and make Active Server Pages (ASP), then you need to get the NT 4 option pack. It is on disk 2 of the Visual Studio 6 pack or download from MS. It also has MS Message Queue and MS Transaction server, among other things, if you get into enterprise development....

HTH

Tom

[This message has been edited by Clunietp (edited 10-27-1999).]