hume.tony
02-12-2009, 01:52 PM
I am in the opening stages of creating an offline website that needs to do a lot of calculations using information from a database that is stored on a shared server.
My initial thoughts for this was an ASP.NET website connected to an Access database. (I picked Access because all the data I'm given is in Excel and I seem to remember an import function for that.)
But, I seem to be having trouble connecting a test db on another server to a test ASP.NET page. And, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think machines that don't have .NET development tools on them cannot run ASP.NET pages offline.
Any suggestions on a better way to pull this off before I get to deep into the wrong way to do it?
My initial thoughts for this was an ASP.NET website connected to an Access database. (I picked Access because all the data I'm given is in Excel and I seem to remember an import function for that.)
But, I seem to be having trouble connecting a test db on another server to a test ASP.NET page. And, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think machines that don't have .NET development tools on them cannot run ASP.NET pages offline.
Any suggestions on a better way to pull this off before I get to deep into the wrong way to do it?