ASP.NET vs Oracle Forms 10g

[waelr]

Well I guess the title says it all
My company is considering a change in the development tools used... currently VB.NET 2008
The choice is between ASP.NET and Oracle Forms 10g..
I duno much about both.. tried to mess a bit with ASP.NET but found it quite different from VB.NET
Any suggestions, feedbacks, articles on the subject ??
Thanks

[gep13]

Hey,

Have a look at the list of tutorials in the ASP.Net Forum:

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=521851

That should get you started.

There are some concepts that you are going to have to get to grips with, but in the code behind pages you can still use VB.Net to do a lot of the work, so you should be able to transfer a lot of your existing knowledge.

I found that a good way to jump in was using the starter kits that are available here, as well as the videos that you can buy at http://www.learnvisualstudio.net.

Hope that helps!!

Gary

[mendhak]

If you work for a company, chances are that you want to do enterprise development.

If you want to do enterprise development, then chances are that you want to be serious about it.

If you want to be serious about enterprise development, you would use ASP.NET and the .NET framework.

Anything that tightly couples UI + DB is not even worthy of being laughed at. Even Mr. T wouldn't pity it.

[waelr]

Well with the database being Oracle 9i wouldn't Oracle Forms be the better choice !?

[mendhak]

No. It's simply made by Oracle. I think you missed the main point there - it's tightly coupled with the database. That is not a good thing. It's meant for RAD, quick-and-dirty forms, not serious development, tiered architecture or any proper business logic.

That's like saying "It would be better to use Firefox to visit the mozilla website because they made it."