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VB.net and ASP.net
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 6:55 pm
by hallsofvallhalla
Curious why you don't see more web games made with vb.net and asp.net. Seems like they would be a good platform for game development.
Re: VB.net and ASP.net
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:14 am
by Sakar
I've been looking at using ASP.Net, might try moving some of your video code over to it. I think the biggest problem is just that ASP.Net is difficult to setup efficiently (have to pre-compile it, ugh) and not all webhosts support it.
EDIT: Forgot the a not

Re: VB.net and ASP.net
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:39 am
by hallsofvallhalla
well only if you choose a windows server. i have all linux servers for my hosts so I would have to get a new host

Re: VB.net and ASP.net
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:58 pm
by Corinthius
I studied VB.net at college, it's a good platform, but it's not the best platform for building a game. You can make interesting things, but I found it fairly limited and harder in comparison to other platforms.
Corinthius.
Re: VB.net and ASP.net
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 10:20 pm
by Jackolantern
This is an old thread. I made another thread since then with a
fairly lengthy explanation as to why web games aren't made with ASP.NET.