I am very much a newbie to internet programming. I would appreciate any input on a few questions i have.

1) I am working on a website in visual interdev. I heard from someone that you should already have a web hosting service selected and use their server name as the SERVER when creating a new project. Is this true? it doesnt make sense that you would need to set up the final server information when creating a project.

2) I have been having problems getting a straight answer from any web hosting services as to whether or not they fully support interdev's features. Is it a safe bet that any web hosting service i choose (provided i choose a windows server) will allow me to create a website using databases and server side objects. I don't have a clear idea yet as to what classes i may be creating to run on the server. Is this likely to be an issue in the future?


Ruairi
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you need to have an NT Server or server that supports Frontpage Exentsion, otherwise how can you use interdev to log onto the server and start creating your pages?

Karl
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Experienced in : C++(both VC++ and Borland),VB1(dos) thru VB6, Delphi 3 pro, HTML, Visual InterDev 6(ASP(WebProgramming/Vbscript)

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Hi

It is not always nessary to open you visual interdev with project. you can also work in visual interdev by opening it as the file.

That is intead of opening a project u can use open file where u can specifiy the file u want to work with. there by u can avoid giving the server name.

Thanks
Muthukumar

MuthuKumar