VB.net, publishing data from program to a website

Recon

What's the best way to go about publishing data in a VB.net application to a website, or to even get a website in the first place. This is an area in which I've no experience so I'm not sure where to even begin.

My idea is to have a site where data could be uploaded to every 15 minutes or so.

NeverSayDie

If you're working with VB.NET anyway, ASP.NET is probably your best bet (you can write the web app code in VB.NET), though you could use PHP, Ruby, Java or a dozen other approaches if you want.
See www.asp.net.

Re getting the data there, lot of approaches to that, depending on circumstances and details. Through a database would be the first option that springs to mind, assuming the data's persistent - your app and web app share a data backend (SQL Server of some sort) where your app stores the updated data, and the website can just display that data whichever way you want.

Re the 15 minutes thing, doesn't matter really - the app can write data to the DB when it suits it, and the web app can read the latest stuff out again whenever someone wants to display a page, that's all there is to it really (within reason - allowing for load and concurrency and all that stuff).

Recon

thanks a million for that, I'll give that a look when I get the part I'm on now finished!

neil_hosey

recommend silverlight.. free and cool to develop.