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Hi
I am running XP (home) and FrontPage 2000.
I have just downloaded ASP.Net
That's all working fine.
I have a web site that is up and running.
I know I can use the Cassinni server which comes with
ASP.Net but I would like to test the example lessons
supplied online.
I copied a .aspx file into a test area of my web but
it only displayed the 'label' text - and nothing else.
Right. ASP.NET didn't exist when FP2000 was released. As
a result, if FP2000 handles ASP.NET code correctly at
all, it's a happy accident.
This occurs because ASP.NET contains a lot of tags that
aren't HTML at all. They're XML tags that cause objects
to be loaded on the Web server. Those objects write HTML
code -- rather than the XML code that created them --
into the response stream destined for the Web visitor,
but when you open the .aspx file, you see the XML tags.
So, for example, FP2000 doesn't know what to do with the
tags in
<asp:literal id="litGreeting" runat="server">
Good Morning
</asp:literal>
and it therefore ignores them.
FP2002 has some support for ASP.NET tags, but for best
results you should try one of the following products:
Visual Studio .NET
Visual Basic .NET Standard
C# .NET Standard
WebMatrix
FrontPage 2003
Visual Studio .NET can be pricey, but it's definitely the
full-bore solution.
Visual Basic .NET Standard and C# .NET Standard cost
about the same as FrontPage and will probably meet you
needs for quite a while. They're basically reduced
versions of Visual Studio that include only one
programming language. Also, if you're going to work with
SQL Server or Oracle databases, you have to write a few
lines of code to open connections and creating bindings
that the full Visual Studio product can do in the GUI.
Web Matrix is a freeware ASP.NET editor that you can get
from Microsoft. Browse
http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/
To use Web Matrix and FrontPage together, configure
FrontPage to use Web Matrix as the default edtior for
the .aspx filename extension.
FP2003 has much better ASP.NET support than earlier
versions. For example it displays all built-in ASP.NET
tags. However, FP2003's strength lies in visual design
rather programming. It's clearly the bet visual designer
of this lot.
Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out ||
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out ||
|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition ||
|| Troubleshooting Microsoft FrontPage 2002 ||
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming ||
|| (All from Microsoft Press) ||
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