Re: ASP.Net newbie

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From: Earl (brikshoe)
Date: 05/01/04 

Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 02:28:17 -0500

Thanks for the advice Kevin. I can't imagine that learning ASP will hurt the
Winforms side of things either :=)

"Kevin Spencer" <kspencer@takempis.com> wrote in message
news:eajfwwtLEHA.128@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Having the .Net framework installed on your OS and having the ASP.Net
ISAPI
> installed on your web server are 2 completely diffferent things. You need
to
> run the following command-line utility to do the latter:
>
> C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\aspnet_regiis.exe -i
>
> A word of advice, if you've never devloped a web application before:
ASP.Net
> is much more complex to work with than a Windows form. In particular, HTTP
> (the transport protocol used by web applications) is stateless, so ASP.Net
> has numerous workarounds to enable State in an ASP.Net app. This makes the
> interface tier much trickier to work with. Bone up as much as you can on
> HTTP, HTML, and your web server.
>
> Good luck!
>
> --
> HTH,
> Kevin Spencer
> .Net Developer
> Microsoft MVP
> Big things are made up
> of lots of little things.
>
> "Earl comcast net>" <brikshoe<at.> wrote in message
> news:OIbeP2sLEHA.128@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > I'm not an ASP developer but having a VS Architect license, I decided to
> get
> > some more use out of the tools besides just developing Windows Forms
apps.
> > So I fired up the IDE and tried to create a new ASP.Net Web application.
> > Somewhat instantly I got the message:
> >
> > "Visual Studio .Net has detected that the specified Web server is not
> > running ASP.Net version 1.1. You will be unable to run ASP.Net Web
> > applications or services."
> >
> > Beyond instantly thinking that perhaps Microsoft is risk-averse to
writing
> > other than cryptic messages, I reconsidered my idea of learning ASP. Two
> > beers later, I reconsidered again. Well, I have the 1.1 Framework
> installed
> > (version 1.1.4322) and the IDE is version 7.1.3088. I have all of IIS
> > installed and all of the Windows Updates in place. Is there some other
> patch
> > or configuration that I'm overlooking?
> >
> >
>
>