Website development

Hi there

I have been reading up a bit on website development and have been interested in finding out how it works when a site is interactive i.e. asking questions and providing answers to the questions. In particular, and as an example, if I write a simple engineering programme (in for instance visual basic) to calculate the headloss in a pipe, and I offer this programme on the web, how can I obtain input from the person wanting to use the programme (eg the lenght and diameter of the pipe) and then upon receipt of the information, carry out the calculation with the visual basic programme, and giving back the answer to the internet user.

Many thanks

Cheers

Astericks

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Hi Astericks,

You need to read up on web application development topics such as CGI or forms-based web interaction, and ASP.NET app development. Web apps are very different from desktop apps - so different that I would recommend against trying to take a desktop application and change it into a web app, as you describe in your example. You can write your first version of your app as a desktop app to let you sort out the calculation logic and so forth, but when you're ready to begin work on your web app the only thing that you might be able to take with you is the calculation logic - not the edit controls or buttons or other UI.

Good luck!

-Danny

DannyThorpeMSFT at 2007-9-4 >