Question

I ve been tasked with a project that requires me to convert a quote for a set of products that is displayed online into a particular file format for import into a third party application. All of the information I need is stored in a database that I can easily access.

Unfortunately, I absolutely have to offer this as a web interface and they want it to be a natural extension of their current ASP.NET product.

Even more unfortunate is that I ve had no prior experience in ASP.NET and, as a result, I can t seem to phrase my question in a way that gets the desire result in search engines. I guess I m behind on the proper terminology.

What I d like to do is to take the data in the database and read it into objects that I ve created in C# that hold their particular necessary attributes. For instance:

The QUOTE class contains a list of ITEM attributes. The ITEM class contains a list of MODIFICATIONs.

I could then just loop over all the line items and output the necessary information to perform the task.

I m familiar with Ruby on Rails and how I can set up objects, work on them, and then reference them in the view, but I m completely lost in ASP.NET.

So, the short version is this:

What am I trying to do in terms of ASP.NET terminology so that I can research how to do it?

Is it even possible?

Answer 1

You will need two things that will help you out tremendously, for this project and for the next ones:

Learn a bit of LINQ, specifically Linq to SQL. The best book is "Linq in Action" by Manning. LINQ will open up a whole new horizon on data access and will make your like easier.
Follow the ASP .NET MVC tutorial at NerdDinner.com. It will get you familiarized with MVC in a few hours.

You need less than a week to get you up to speed, and then the project will suddenly look a lot more approachable.

Answer 2

If you are familiar with Rails, then you will want to look at ASP.Net MVC

Answer 3

You need an object-relational mapper, or ORM. The most popular one is NHibernate, and some folks have created a framework called ActiveRecord that sits atop it and acts sort of like the activerecord you re probably familiar with in Rails. Start your Googling there, with NHibernate.

Answer 4

they want it to be a natural extension of their current ASP.NET product.

Depending what platform they are in right now, if it s asp.net webform, then I suggest you look into GridView control since it s very powerful to display the grid Data.

If you go for Asp.Net mvc which is closer to Rails, then you may look into something like jqGrid.

Answer 5

First thing to do is define more clearly what you need to do.

It sounds like you need to add functionality to an existing web app that "displays a quote for a set of products" (like a shopping cart page), that is already saved in a database.

The functionality you need to add (I think), is a feature to convert the information for the quote from the database - into a particular file format (specified by the third party app that will import the information).

Is that correct, or is the scope of your task larger / smaller?

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