Getting Started with WebForms

This episode represents the start of a new playlist aimed at those MS Access and new Visual Basic developers who want a web-based, familiar event-driven way of designing applications. WebForms is a tried and true development platform that has been in use for years by VB developers. WebForms can open a whole new world of possibilites for seasoned VBA developers, who can untangle themselves from hardware, quickly putting useful small applications into the cloud on Azure. From there, they can easily integrate powerful Azure technologies like Logic Apps, App Services, big data tech, Power Platform tech like Power BI and Power Apps, and more. The sky is the limit once you start developing Visual Basic apps with ASP.Net!

In this episode, we'll quickly orient ourselves in the Visual Studio IDE, start a new WebForms application (for a fictional towing company) with a simple list, create an Azure SQL database, connect the app and the database, then deploy everything on Azure App Services and test out our new online app. In upcoming episodes, we'll explore how to use our app in more detail, and start to use all of the cool controls available to us.

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[MathnLogic]

high quality Web Forms vid, everyone else just tells me not to learn web forms lol. But i have to for my internship which uses legacy apps

[miles]

I really appreciate being able to approach these more modern programming contexts through the lens of access programming - thank you.

[lloyddewald]

Sean - Thank you for this easy to understand and follow video. I followed all of the steps of creating a free Azure account, then creating the Azure SQL database and putting in content into the database, and then using Visual Studio 2022 to create the web app and publish/deploy it to Azure as a web app. All of the steps seemed to work and be successful, but when I go to the URL for the deployed web app, I still see the message: "Your web app is running and waiting for your content", even 5 days after deploying the web app. Any thoughts? Thank you!

[miles]

Revisiting this video and intrigued by the technique of using SQL express locally to develop scripts that will eventually be passed to cloud SQL server environment. Great tip

[MathnLogic]

lol i messed up because your ginormous I cursor was blocking the i in bind so I thought it was band!

[sephjvr]

I love your channel. But I feel you sometimes forget not everyone is as advanced as you. You started the video off nice and slow, showing step by step. But then you gradually sped up until it was like "you then calculate the speed of light here and then the circumference of a black hole. Got that? ok and then we simply quantify the meaning of existence". Still appreciate you making the time for the video in the first place. But, please break this tutorial into sections for some of us whom are still starting out