Newbie IIS questions

[bonehead]

Greetings,

I'm about to start studying vb.net. Yesterday I was flipping through the
Bradley & Millspaugh book (ISBN 0072256710) which is the latest edition
of a vb text that's been widely used in university undergraduate
programming courses for many years. In the chapter on web forms, the
authors state, very briefly, and without going into any detail at all,
that if you want to test web forms on the local machine, you have to
install IIS *before* you install vb.net. Since I haven't set up anything
yet, I guess I'm glad I stumbled upon this.

Can anyone explain why the authors would state this?

Alternatively: two of the machines in my home network are a Win2K Server
with SQL Server 2K, and a workstation running Win2K Pro which I intend
to use as my production machine. Could I:

a. Install IIS on the server,
b. Install VisualStudio.NET 2K3 on the workstation,
c. Develop the apps on the workstation, and
d. Copy the project files to a virtual directory on the server for testing?

Suggestions/alternative solutions/enlightenment welcome.

 

[Kirk Quinbar]

The reason is because the install set for .NET will not correctly setup the
IIS Application mappings to tell IIS what to do with ASPX, etc type files,
if IIS is not already setup. So you know what I'm referring to, follow these
directions:
- open up IIS and right click on a website and select properties
- under the Directory tab, you should see a Configuration button, click that
- then look thru the list that shows up. If .NET is setup before IIS, then
you would not see paths to the .NET runtime and entries for aspx, ascx, etc
type files.

later,

Kirk Quinbar
Zywave, Inc.