shawn.melton (4/20/2009)
What is the minimum editions required of SQL and Visual Studio?Being only a VBScript person and not a full blown .NET programmer (I can read it but not really write it to well) I would say putting 1 year into developing this top of project is reasonable, and helpful in displaying your need to the company (a.k.a. job security). A similar web app is used where I work now for monitoring Sun Solaris servers and Window Servers. I don't know how long it took the person to develop it.
How often will the articles be published (1 per day, per week, etc)?
Hi Shawn,
You know what, as far as I am aware, you can use both the free version of SQL Server (Express) and the free version of Visual Studio Web Developer edition to accomplish what we need. Why don't you download them if you haven't got them already and follow the articles. If the editions fall short, let me know, we'll find a way around the area in question.
I should have originally emphasised that it took me a year to build the suit of reports only when I could fit them in around work. There were at times weeks between writing a report. If it takes others a couple of weeks to build reports in SSMS/SSRS, I can pretty much guarantee that this isn't because of the ease of these two tools over .Net, but rather the complexity of the reports. Come to think of it, it took me at least two weeks just to figure out what reports we needed as an organisation, let alone build them. 🙂
I kid you not; VB.Net is far more intuitive than vbscript. You'll love it.
Part 2 is published on Wednesday and Part 3 on Friday. Then I think dependant on popularity, I'll be given the go ahead to publish the rest. The actual ASP.Net bit doesn't start till Part 4 though, and to the best of my knowledge there is a 4 week wait before any article is published (I submitted these in early Feb). If the wait is too long, I'll put them up on my own site, http://www.thebuddingdba.com
Thanks for writing,
Drew