What to do for data entry?

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Hello everybody, I am developing an e-commerce site in ASP.Net and C#. I am confused should I make data entry forms in C# or in ASP.Net? Can anyone guide me what to do?

Maha Fatima · Answer

Thank You Khan and Dipal for guiding me.

Dipal Choksi · Answer

Hi, For the data to be entered by the administrator, I would suggest setting up an ASP.Net web form(s). You can setup the security for the Administrator web form(s) so that only the Administrator(s) have rights to view and access this area. For the data that will be logged automatically, it will be done on the ASP.Net page, in the server side code for the login page.. I would stay away from offline data entry due to reasons such as having to synchronize to the back-end, potential multi-user conflicts, local setup etc.

Arshad · Answer

Hi, First of all, I think you are a bit confused about the WebApplication, see when ever you need the thing into the Web then u will have to use the ASP.NET and the code behing Language(i.e called our Bussiness Logic) it can be in C#,VB.NET and C++, so if we need this kind of thing then use ASP.NET and C# or what ever, and for the Desktop Application you should go through the Windows Application, you cant make the WebForm Witout ASP.NET, and you told that can we make the Forms using C#, so there is also same Funda, Normally in the WindowsApplication we only used the C# or VB.NET but for the Forms we will have to use some Namespace and we will have to add Reference in our Application, thats all, Nothing else, I hope u got that, n u were telling some thing like you want to create some Page but it should not be there in our Application, so try to write that Data in to the Text file or and file and Just and Upload inour Application, thats all, Thanks With Regards Khan

Maha Fatima · Answer

Thanks for the reply now few more questions... Data will be entered by the administrator as well as some of the data will be automated like when the user enters its credentials then that information will be transfered to the database. can we make forms in C# for entering the data and can we keep that forms offline (means not to host these forms with the rest of the site). One more question if we keep those forms offline then how to update our database later on???.... :)

Dipal Choksi · Answer

If you are planning to have end-users enter data, it might be helpful to provide data entry through the web interface using asp.net. If you are planning to have automated data entry such as web services it would make more sense to use a code oriented data entry.

What to do for data entry?

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