RE: Web Interfacing Advantages?

>Walden, - what is the best way for a green screen rpg'r to learn .Net ?
>(the company gives me no "play time" or training on their time. 

1) The lists, like this one, and since you're here you're better off
than 99% of the iSeries folks out there.

2) Barnes and Noble (or Borders, or ...) just grab a cup of coffee and
5-10 "teach yourself asp.net" books and have a seat. Leaf though them
(don't read them in detail) and see if the authors style is one you
like. Pick your favourite 2 or 3 and buy them. Go home and read them in
more detail, return the 2 you don't like and keep 1. (See why B&N is
known to my co-workers as the Walden Leverich Lending Library <G>)
Obviously you can use Amazon too, but it's harder to grab a cup of
coffee and read. 

3) Practice. I know you said the company doesn't give you any time, so
what, you don't need it, really. Get ASP.NET on your home machine, Web
Matrix (might be Visual Studio Express now) and a copy of MSDE (free
from MS) and code away. MSDE is a "small" version of SQLServer, but
you'll never see the differences, and the sample code will make sense.

4) "But wait" you say! "I use an AS/400, I don't want SQLServer!" I hear
you. The point is, the iSeries is just a big database server. A really
good one, and you can write stored procs in RPG and all that, but for
learning ASP.NET it doesn't really matter where the data comes from, the
code will look the same. 

5) Once you have a working toy app in ASP.NET w/SQLServer then just
change a couple of lines (we'll tell you which when you get there) and
stay late one evening and try it out. Accessing iSeries data from .NET
requires NO server-side code so they'll never know. <G>

-Walden

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