Getting Started with .Net

[AWehrstedt]

I'm very green with .Net experience, so please excuse any stupidity!

I have been an ASP developer for the past 5 years. Our company is switching focus to .Net development but none of us have been able to get a new project started on our web server.

Here is what we used to do for ASP development:
1) Go to the server, build a new site in IIS (we use host header names to connect to sites)
2) Add front page extensions to the side
3) Connect from our workstations using Visual InterDev and start building.

I haven't figured out how to mimic the process in Visual Studio .Net.

I've heard that all project have to build now as virtual directories instead of separate web sites.

Can someone please give me a run-down of the process to start a new web application? Our server is W2K with the .Net framework installed on it.

Thanks!

Andrew

 

[Craig0201]

Ummm....

File, Creat New, Web App, Pick where you want it!

Craig

 

[nam4520]

also new to asp.net. but i'm using webmatrix instead of the visual studio.net. But i believe you can use visual interdev as well to develop your apps as long as you save the txt files with an aspx extension, that if, if you love a lot of coding.make sure you save the files in your server directory and then call it from a browser. but then that is not an advisable way to go becos you won't be getting all the goodies and rapid development that comes with studio.net. just take your time to familiarize yourself with the vbstudio.net environment.

 

[AWehrstedt]

Craig,

Yeah not as easy as that. Appears that its trying to create a virtual site under the default web site on the server, but like I said in my previous post..we don't use virtual sites, we create new sites and use host-headers to connect to them.

i.e. we use website.domain.com not domain.com/website

If I create the site in IIS first, when I try to connect to it using VS.Net it asks where the project files are..but thats what I'm trying to create.

Works fine if I do it to my local machine (creates the virtual site and away I go), but it doesn't when I try to connect to my development web server.

 

[Zarcom]

You could try it this way. Use VS to create the project files. Create your site in IIS. Move the project files to that site. Connect to it using VS.

That'l do donkey, that'l do
Mark
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