What servers/resources needed for ASP.Net 1

[multiplex77]

Hi,

I'm a ColdFusion programmer who is new to both ASP and ASP.Net. Now that I have to develop a new web application that has to run off the IIS platform, I have to choose whether to use classic ASP or jump straight into ASP.Net. I have IIS running on Windows NT 4 so I can already run ASP pages. My question is: what resources are necessary to run ASP.Net pages? Is my current web server enough or do I have to get an expensive software upgrade? Or are upgrades available as a free download from MS?

How about VB.Net? Do I *have* to buy Visual Studio.Net in order to program in VB.Net and ASP.Net?

Thanks for the advice!

 

[jfrost10]

Hey Multi,

I *think* that asp.net will run on NT4, but not 100% on that. Its definately better to develop on either Win2k or WinXP-Pro (which will probably give you a more recent version of IIS too).

And no, you don't need to get vs.net to create aspx pages or applications, but let me tell you: vs.net lets you create them faster and better. Its also only about $150 dollars (Canadian), so its not a huge hit (thats just for the vb.net portion of visual studio, you won't get c#, C++.net, etc. But if you just want vb.net, it won't matter).

If you do opt to go without vs.net, then it is still possible to program asp.net old-school, but seriously consider trying vs.net.

Jack

 

[Zarcom]

You don't *have* to buy Visual Studio.Net. Visual Studio is merely a RAD tool for development. I would however recomend that you do invest in Visual Studio. It really speeds up the process of development.
If you don't buy the software you can get the framework for free I believe. If you choose this route you will have to compile your pages with the command line compiler before you can view them each time a change is made. VS does this automatically for you.
As for the server I believe you need the .Net framework
for more information go here

http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads...=/msdn-files/027/001/829/msdncompositedoc.xml

I hope this helps

and to anyone else if I am mistaken in this please post any corrections Thanks

 

[link9]

ASP.NET does not run on NT4.

You would think that this would be something that Microsoft would put front and center, but after trying to get it to run on one of my servers for days and not understanding why the aspnet runtime dll's weren't being installed with the framework, and why IIS would not sync up and put the proper handlers in, I finally found a very obscure little white paper on MSDN (had to find with it Google -- ps. all hail google) that said explicitly:

ASP.NET will not run on NT4.

I'm guessing that it has to run on IIS5, which, of course, doesn't run on NT4 either. So I bet in the specs for ASP.NET, it says IIS5, just not that it won't run on NT4 (but it's implicitly stated). I was a bit upset when I learned of this... but it was time to upgrade anyway.

Just FYI, other .NET framework applications, such as desktop windows forms, will run just fine... just can't host an ASP.NET app.


paul