Score boards with ASP.NET

[MarkSensei]

I am developing for ASP.net, im going to be using the portal starter kit and Dot net nuke, both for the 2.0 framework, and I am wondering if anyone has had experience with making a scoreboard that works with a MSDE database. I have seen tons of PHP tutorials, but nobody ever mentions ASP.net.....wonder why?

Anyways, if anyone knows of a good tutorial or can teach me somthing, please!

Thanks in advance

Mark

[T1ger]

The reason nobody ever mentions ASP.net is because its not free like PHP. Anybody can freely download PHP and test it. Not many bother buying ASP.net just to try it.

But sorry, I dont know anything about ASP.net.. You could try another section, the games-section may not be the best place to ask for this.

[MarkSensei]

Just for FYI sake, ASP.NET is free, its all open source....yeah, Microsoft and open source, sounds like an oxymoron but, hey. I tried other forums, nobody knows.....Maybe I should just go PHP. Seems its the Flash choice....just dont know where to start with it

[webgeek]

Our boards are all ASP.NET with C#. It works just fine. you do it basically the same as you do with PHP, just using a different language. We are using SQL Server 2003, not MSDE though, so I can't help much there.

ASP.NET is free, its all open source

Free yes, open source no. The ASP.NET implementation is not publically available. The C# langauge specification, on the other hand, IS managed by the IEEE group and so it could be called open source.

[T1ger]

Oh, so its not free.. Nevermind then

[webgeek]

Open source means free, but closed source doesn't automatically mean something costs money. If you have a newer (millenium or greater, 2000 or greater) Microsoft OS, then you can get ASP.NET for free. You could say that the price of ASP.NET is the OS but that's splitting hairs. There is also a version of ASP.NET for other platforms and it IS free and open source and cross platform (Mono).

[T1ger]

Actually, when you mention it, I actually have experiented with ASP.net.. But I didnt like it.. So I went back to php

[MarkSensei]

Webgeek, I just realized, Im changing my hoster to Godaddy in the next few days so they run mySQL databases, so could you possibly give me some help setting up a board?

[webgeek]

I've never used .NET with mySQL, but it looks like you just use ODBC. This article shows you how:
http://www.stardeveloper.com/article...3052201&page=9

Beyond that, there isn't much to a high score board. They are basically the same between all languages. Just find one you like in a given language and port the code to ASP.NET.

[MarkSensei2]

Hi, I hope you can tell by the name that Im the origional poster of this thread but had to create a new account so I have a new name. Anyway WebGeek, I hope you are still around because I wanted to correct my post and ask of your help. Im in fact using a SQL server 2005 database on a DotNetNuke platform and since you mentioned that you use server 2003 I waswondering if you could guide me through the making of a score board. thanks alot!