Connecting to external database, searching an external DB

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5/28/2009 1:12:55 PM
shikarishambu
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Connecting to external database, searching an external DB

I am new to mojoPortal. I wanted to find out if

a) There is a way to have a form input search an external database and return results. Eg. - Use the form input to search and return the list of vendors from the Vendors database for all vendors in that state.

b) Extending on this idea - ability to create a proximity based search - form input of zipcode to return the list of vendors from Vendor database ordered by proximity.

thanks

5/28/2009 1:52:49 PM
Joe Audette
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Re: Connecting to external database, searching an external DB

Yes, if you are a developer and able to develop that functionality, it should be easy to plugin the UI part as a mojoportal feature.

Best,

Joe 

5/29/2009 4:10:10 PM
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Re: Connecting to external database, searching an external DB

Joe,

 Please point me to some documents/ links that would set me on the right path.

thanks

6/3/2009 5:41:18 AM
Joe Audette
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Re: Connecting to external database, searching an external DB

Hi,

If you are new to ASP.NET development, I suggest you get a good book about it. Its very important to understand the lifecycle of events in pages and controls during a web request.

I also recommend you use the mojoportal source code package with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer Express 2008 SP1, and use the mojoportal.sln solution file.

The best way to learn is to study existing code and mojoportal has exisiting code to do almost any kind of development task you need to learn like accessing databases and other common development tasks. So the source code is the very best documentation available.

Other documentation is available here:

http://www.mojoportal.com/documentation.aspx

http://www.mojoportal.com/developerdocs.aspx

Hope it helps,

Joe

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