Question

I am coming from PHP so bear with me with my noobness…

I want to know a few things.

I know PHP, javascript and MySQL very very well now and I understand that browsers understand a few things.. html and javascript.

I ran through a tutorial of c#.net and found that it had pre-made “user controls” and i thought, oh my it’s completely different from PHP… Then i realised that in the end it ends up with a bunch of javascript I could have written myself (not saying i want to ;), just saying).

My questions….

1.

If I have a table with some input fields:

<form id="form1" runat="server" method = "post" action = "validate_entry.aspx">
    <table>
        <tr>
            <td>Name: </td><td><input type = "text" name = "name" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td colspan = "2"><input type = "submit" value = "submit" /></td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</form>

and use the post and action methods, and then in validate_entry.aspx on Page_Load class I call something like:

c.Request["name"];

and do whatever with it.. Is this still a professional way of using c# or am i wanting it to be too much like PHP. Am i missing out on some execute speed or something even though it’s running javascript.

2.

If I wanted to simply output the word “arse” in a div… If I do something like this, am I defeating the object of c#.net

<div id = "the_butt_holder">
    <% Response.Write("arse"); %>
</div>

or a better example is that in my validate_entry.aspx page I do:

<div id = "the_response">
    <% Response.Write(c.Request["name"]); %>
</div>

Answer 1

I think in your case, you would benefit greatly from looking at ASP MVC. It gets much closer to the grain and will probably be much closer to what you’re used to working with as you have a great deal of control over the html.