[jsabarese]

I'm inexperienced w/ ASP.NET. When developing web pages, i typically rely heavily on the crutch of Dreamweaver, although i could hand-code if forced to do so.

I need to learn to develop applications using the ASP.NET framework. What software, other than Notpad, do you suggest i use as a learning tool to help me get off the ground and quickly develop a simple ASP.NET app to pull data from an MS SQL 2000 database server? all i need to do is pull a few records into a page.

i'm designing a price list for our company which needs to be accessible via our intranet and IE. We want the pricing data to be dynamic to adjust for price changes, so that our vendors will be up-to-the-minute current w/ us.

these price list items will also have links to photographs so that the vendors will be able to verify from the photo that they are selecting the correct item.

do you have a suggested editor, and perhaps a suggested approach to this app?
how would you suggest i allow for an administrator to update the item description, (or is it possible, to even update the photos dynamically) as well as the pricing information?

thanks! i apologize for my convoluted inquiry here. i hope you're able to help nonetheless. any info will help me, as i'm really starting from scrath here. i do understand some SQL, i have the SAMs teach yourself SQL in ten minutes, and i have developed fairly complex apps in coldfusion, but that is so guided by dreamweaver that i'm a bit intimidated at this asp.net task before me.