tryingtolearn
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All,
It has been years since I've done any Windows programming (edit: probably close to 10-15 years) and I am trying to jump back in. Essentially, I'm starting over and I'm fine with being called a noob. The purpose of this thread is to get some general knowledge to guide me on what I need to research myself.
I am trying to develop a client application for work that will share GPS lat/long with everyone that also has the client app installed.
When researching "C# Database for Beginners", I found something very unusual. Almost every single tutorial shows that the server IP, username, password, etc hard-coded into the program. The program is doing direct connections to a database. Is this the best practice? I feel like I've heard people talking about calling web services to handle these requests and returning the responses in XML.
I know what the application needs to do, and it's very simple, really. But I want to make sure this is done correctly. What is the best method?
Thank you in advance,
Rob.
It has been years since I've done any Windows programming (edit: probably close to 10-15 years) and I am trying to jump back in. Essentially, I'm starting over and I'm fine with being called a noob. The purpose of this thread is to get some general knowledge to guide me on what I need to research myself.
I am trying to develop a client application for work that will share GPS lat/long with everyone that also has the client app installed.
I come from a stronger background of PHP and MySQL, so I'll probably just create a backend DB on a LINUX server with a simple table.
When researching "C# Database for Beginners", I found something very unusual. Almost every single tutorial shows that the server IP, username, password, etc hard-coded into the program. The program is doing direct connections to a database. Is this the best practice? I feel like I've heard people talking about calling web services to handle these requests and returning the responses in XML.
I know what the application needs to do, and it's very simple, really. But I want to make sure this is done correctly. What is the best method?
Thank you in advance,
Rob.