MS Visual Basic 6 .0 opinions sought

[praematurus]

Can anyone recommend this? I'm looking at diving into some server side programming. I suppose I could just use a text editor, but if this makes it easy ... Opinions???

 

[ugh]

<< Can anyone recommend this? I'm looking at diving into some server side programming. I suppose I could just use a text editor, but if this makes it easy ... Opinions??? >>



Do you mean dynamic web pages by SSP or what?

 

[praematurus]

ASP, yes, that's what I mean.

 

[ugh]

<< ASP, yes, that's what I mean. >>



If you're planning to do purely ASP, you don't need VB. You can edit it in a plain text editor (UltraEdit comes into mind). But I recommend you to install Visual Interdev (not exactly nice, but it works). It comes with command completion and stuff like that.

However, if you want to explore more into COM components and such, the easiest way to do it is to code VB COM components and access them via ASP by using the Server.CreateObject() method.

Hope this helps.

 

[DaHitman]

Learn something more popular... VB/asp just inst that popular...

Biggest bang would be to learn PHP, Coldfusion, Perl, or Java to make Java Server Pages.