Visual Web Developer 2005 Express

It's Sunday so maybe a little truth in posting is in order here:

My opinions - findings - nothing in stone for sure:
1. Visual Web Developer 2005 Express (VWDE) is a great vehicle for me
to write my ASP-ADO Net apps;
2. VWDE's web controls are fast and great for flat file type tables;
3. I have not yet found anyway to have my pull downs start with the
selected value as the value of the field in my main table;
4. I have not yet found a way to set the selected day of the Calendar
Web Control to the value of a Date field in my main table.

Of course, it's quite possible that these "ways" exist and that I just
haven't been able to find them. It's also possible that they exist only
in the versions of Visual Web Developer 2005 that cost.

In the meantime, I can't do with VWDE what I can do with the old
ASP-ADO technologies, and certainly, it doesn't approach Access as a
RAD platform.

BTW, the Calendar control is, to my mind quite basic and disappointing.
The aspx web pages can take a long time for initial load. And I was
unable to use the Calendar Control without posting back to the server
every time I chose a date, causing, of course, the screen of flash and
be redrawn.

I'll state once again that all these problems may be due just to my
inexperience.

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