Question

My over all goal is to upload a very simple ASP.NET web site created in C# and using a SQLEXPRESS DB to a hosting provider via FTP.

I understand that I can get all of my ASPX, .CS, master pages and image files with no problem. Problem I am having and reason I am here is because I cant simply pop my MDF file into my hosting provider’s (Verio Hosting) site.

On the web I ran across a post by Scott Gu. In his post he wrote about converting a MDF into a .SQL file which you can execute from a web site. See below….

If your hoster has no usable HTML web
admin tool for allowing you to easily
manage your SQL database, then you can
also just write a simple ASP.NET page
that you FTP (along with your .SQL
file) to your web-site and then hit to
read the .SQL file on the server in as
text, and then pass it as a string to
ADO.NET to execute. This will give
you the same result as the query
analyzer above – and fully create your
database for you.

I created the .SQL file and I am capable of popping this .SQL file into my website. My question to you guys is how do I create that simple ASP.NET page that I can then hit to read, and then do everything else that Scott mentioned in the passage above????

EDIT: I found out that that I can just re-create my DB by remotely logging in to my hosting providers SQL server via SQL Mgt Studio. I dont want to do this for two reasons 1.) It feels cheap knowing that there is a much cooler way to do this, and 2.) I dont know how to re-create the ASPNETDB.MDF that I use for my user database that ASP.NET created for me.

Answer 1

My question to you guys is how do I
create that simple ASP.NET page that I
can then hit to read, and then do
everything else that Scott mentioned
in the passage above????

Which part of the process don’t you understand?

It’s just a regular *.aspx web form; you do all of the work in the code behind.

BTW, when sending commands to SQL Server via ADO.NET, keep in mind that ADO.NET doesn’t understand “GO” statements; if your script contains them, you will either have to parse them out and submit batches accordingly, or arrange to invoke a command-line tool like sqlcmd from your page, if your hosting provider allows it.