What is Apple's equivalent of Microsoft ASP.NET for Web Development?

I am a web designer and spend all my time writing in ASP.NET, this I swear is the best web development language I have come across. Pity the platform it runs on is so god-damned awful (a PC).

Recently I have been looking at an Apple Mac and can use all the software I am used to using (Photoshop, Flash, Firefox, Thunderbird etc.,) although the only sticking point is the web development platform.

Can anyone tell me what the Mac equivalent is (if any) of using Microsoft SQL Server with ASP.NET (I'm currently using SQL Server 2005 Express and ASP.NET 2.0 with AJAX extensions).

Sadie.

You sound quite pc-literate, so you might want to look into the Mono project (http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page). It's a framework aiming to get the Mac & other platforms compatible with .Net.

There is no other direct .Net equivalent for the Mac. The Developer Tools you can install (they come with the OSX installation cd's) focus pretty much on Java ond Objective-C tools.

Hope that helps.

I forgot to say - you can also have a Mac which dual-boots into a real, working copy of Windows. Then you can just re-install all of your favourite software and treat it like a pc. Best of both worlds! (http://www.apple.com/macosx/bo... Report It

You should start with researching Filemaker Pro and then talk to some web database designers about how they implement all of it together. Apple has a "white paper" on it at the link below. The second link is a "tips and tricks" page about Filemaker Pro. The third is a link to Apple's developer connection search results.

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