Re: newbie question

> You'll feel much better once you get into it. :)

I doubt it, but I got nothing to lose except my sanity.
*slowly takes the gun off her forehead*

So, what do I need to get started?

IIS is installed. I wish to use ASP.NET with C#.
Now do I need Visual Studio .NET, or does notepad suffice?
What does Visual Studio.NET provide other than debugging and text coloring..
is it just like FrontPage is for HTML/ASP or does .NET code have to be
compiled? If so, what is it compiled into? Portable Executable (PE)? What
the hell is that? Intermediate code? What does an ASP.NET website consist
of? .aspx files, that are like asp files, mix of HTML and C# (or whatever
scripting is used).. and .dll's that work like CGI or IIS extensions?

It took me years to figure out what was such a big deal about XML, for them
to write huge books about XML as the next big thing.. "Isn't it just storing
data hierarchically in a format similar to HTML?" I wondered.. so what else
is there to say about it? I guess I should've picked up one of those big
books to find out. I use XML all the time, but till this day I still don't
know what the big deal was. It seems we're not buying technology so much as
we are buying marketing terminology.. I have to look up the meaning of it
all.. I just looked up what "Assemblies" were.. the discriptions are so
abstract, that it doesn't help you have a concrete idea unless you get to
see actual code.. I don't even speak the world of .NET terminology yet, let
alone program with it.


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