I've been developing oracle database-heavy "web applications" forever by building my html by hand, adding some jquery to handle ajax requests (html inserts for forms processing etc), and always did my server side stuff in perl cgi. I really love how easy it is to read some form input, execute some select statements through dbi, and generate HTML to be inserted by the jquery request. That's a web application to me.
However, my new boss builds everything in visual studio 2010, vb.net for web application development. That's how much I can describe it. So, for work reasons, I now need to start developing in vb.net so it can be collectively maintained, and I'm just seeking advice on where to start learning/how to approach this.
I'm thinking I need to learn how to write cgi applications in vb.net , and continue with client-side scripting (jQuery) handled by server-side CGI processing by combiled vb.net exe's, maybe.
We're moving heavily to mobile applications and really need to reduce client-side processing load. Is there any advantage to my boss' method?
Thanks a ton.