Greg K — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 00:08:37 +0000

Ok, now that I have access to books24x7.com again, I came across a book that teaches you ASP.NET using Web Matrix on my Windows XP home laptop. Will let you know how it works.

I did a search on here for that, and the only post I found was from a long time ago just asking about it.

-Greg

Renegade — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:43:05 +0000

bja888 wrote: ...when I see tux I think linux.

Um... I think that was the original idea...

bja888 — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:16:56 +0000

I wasn't tring to start anything I just though it was ironic/funny. And when I see tux I think linux.

Yes Brinkster offers their "educational" package still. I reccomend them! The Cheep/Free accounts dont offer things sutch as C# support.

Renegade — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:13:53 +0000

I don't know if they still offer it or if the site is still up, but, you can try brinkster.com. They offer free ASP hosting

mairving — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:30:42 +0000

bja888 wrote: They guy with the linux icon is giveing windows advice.....

It's a penguin, not a Linux icon. Don't really run Linux any more either having converted to FreeBSD a couple of years ago. I have 8 servers at work, 4 are FreeBSD, 3 are W2k3 and 1 is a W2K running SQL server, 2 run IIS 6 and 1 runs IIS 5, so contrary to what your post says, yes I do know Windows only too well. Although not from the development side as much as the server side.

I would advise you that posts meant to start a flamefest like yours, are against forum rules. It is also very ill advised to flame a moderator.

bja888 — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:17:52 +0000

They guy with the linux icon is giveing windows advice.....

ASP.NET requires IIS 6. VB.Net Is modified so it can compile. That means data types and sutch. I used JScript.Net for a while before I switched to C#.Net. It was easy going from JScript to JScript.net.

mairving — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:52:00 +0000

Greg K wrote: Thanks for the replies so far, one thing I realized I forgot to ask, what would you say min requirements would be for this? I have older used systems around, and prefer not to have to use the best fo what is lieing around.

I'm assuming I'll need a little more UMPH than what i use on FreeBSD machines. (our main server here for 12 people is a PII 300Mhz system with a 20 gig hd and 64 megs of ram, plus it has php, mysql, and apache running. It is for internal web apps only and our main file server)

-Greg

It meets the minimum specs but I would say something over 800Mhx, 256M RAM. HD should be fine. It will work but it will be too slow to be productive.

Greg K — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:59:45 +0000

Thanks for the replies so far, one thing I realized I forgot to ask, what would you say min requirements would be for this? I have older used systems around, and prefer not to have to use the best fo what is lieing around.

I'm assuming I'll need a little more UMPH than what i use on FreeBSD machines. (our main server here for 12 people is a PII 300Mhz system with a 20 gig hd and 64 megs of ram, plus it has php, mysql, and apache running. It is for internal web apps only and our main file server)

-Greg

mairving — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:39:08 +0000

Not too difficult to setup. W2K server has a tendency to install a bunch of unneeded junk. IIS 5 really needs to have the IIS lockdown tool with URLScan to be secure. IIS 6 which ships with W2K3 Server is much more secure out of the box than it's predecessor.

Still pretty easy to setup, probably the biggest difficulty that you will have is setting the permissions correctly to allow the scripts to run which can be a pain sometimes.

Post back if you need help.

skyhawk133 — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:11:22 +0000

Here is a quick and dirty tutorial for installing IIS on Windows 2000:

http://www.webwizguide.com/asp/tutorials/installing_iis_win2k.asp