Advice

[MTSkull]

My boss asked how hard it would be to set up something to allow a customer to view his inventory levels in our warehouse.

 

The ware house database is this crappy thing in MS Access 2000. I am well versed in the fundamentals of VB.net but have not done any web services, and only some very basic HTML.

 

So my question is for the Gurus on this board. What would be the best way to do this using .net.

 

Should I create ASP web pages, XML remote program? I need an informed awnser to something I know little about. Also if I have strong programming base knowledge, how hard would it be to pick up the neccesary skills to to make this happen? I have a rough time line of 3-6 months so plenty of time to study up.

 

Thanks

MTS

[Bucky]

An ASP.NET web application sounds like a good idea. Is the

server hosting the database the same as the server that the

web application will be served from, or are they different servers?

 

If they are different, then an XML web service could be set up

on the database server to hand out information in the database

to the ASP.NET application. If the web and databases servers are

one and the same, then you shouldn't need the web service

(unless you have plans for outsiders to design apps that can

access this database).

 

Web services are not difficult to learn and use in VS.NET at all, but

learning ASP.NET may have a bit of a learning curve.

[iebidan]

We've something pretty similar to that, nationwide, what we did is pretty simple

 

ASPX with a datagrid and ADO.NET, took us like 1.5 weeks to finish it, after that we made a more complex version of it we used webservices, SOAP and more, but I think the simple solution is what you need

 

Cheers