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Tried that. I can't get it to work.
I'm working on an app that I developed in Visual Basic and want to put it on the web with Interdev. With VB I worked on it at the office, home, and the road with a laptop. I would like to do the same with the Web App. That is the reason I want to work without IIS.
Also I was looking at Front Page. I think it has more of the controls I'm used to than Interdev does. It looks like it has all of the DTC controls that VB does. I especially need a good Grid. In Front Page, I can use the MSHFlex Grid that I'm used to anyway.
Any comments are greatly appreciated.
Rob
Just my $.02.
I'm working on an app that I developed in Visual Basic and want to put it on the web with Interdev. With VB I worked on it at the office, home, and the road with a laptop. I would like to do the same with the Web App. That is the reason I want to work without IIS.
Also I was looking at Front Page. I think it has more of the controls I'm used to than Interdev does. It looks like it has all of the DTC controls that VB does. I especially need a good Grid. In Front Page, I can use the MSHFlex Grid that I'm used to anyway.
Any comments are greatly appreciated.
Rob
Just my $.02.
I run local iis on my dev box and laptop. You can use PWS(personal web server) on 98 or IIS is part of 2000/XP PRO.
I create a local project that mirrors the live one. Do my
work/testing local and then copy the code from the local project to the live project when needed.
I create a local project that mirrors the live one. Do my
work/testing local and then copy the code from the local project to the live project when needed.
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Rob,
Have you considered Personal Web Server? It comes in the NT Option Pack from Microsoft. Be sure you get the right one if you're running 4.0 Workstation or 4.0 Server. The 4.0 Workstation version will run on 95 and 98.
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Have you considered Personal Web Server? It comes in the NT Option Pack from Microsoft. Be sure you get the right one if you're running 4.0 Workstation or 4.0 Server. The 4.0 Workstation version will run on 95 and 98.
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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I'm running Windows 2000 Pro. It comes with IIS 5.0. I have it installed but it's a pain. When I finish this little app a web hosting company is going to host it so I really don't have to learn a lot about IIS. I would like to know a little but I can read about the small parts.
I developed an app in Visual Basic 6.0 and am in the process of making it a web based app. (employer can't make up his mind) Since the first post, I've started playing around with Front Page. I have never used either and just learned enough of VB to accomplish my goal in the last year or so. I think with the Script Wizards and other GUI tools in Front Page I would be better off speed wise. I, as we all do, would like to finish up as soon as possible.
Do you think that Front Page will be powerful enough to handle it.
Thanks. Rob
Just my $.02.
I developed an app in Visual Basic 6.0 and am in the process of making it a web based app. (employer can't make up his mind) Since the first post, I've started playing around with Front Page. I have never used either and just learned enough of VB to accomplish my goal in the last year or so. I think with the Script Wizards and other GUI tools in Front Page I would be better off speed wise. I, as we all do, would like to finish up as soon as possible.
Do you think that Front Page will be powerful enough to handle it.
Thanks. Rob
Just my $.02.
Rob,
Now I understand. My experience with both PWS (Personal Web Server) and IIS is that when you create a webpage in FrontPage or Visual InterDev it does all the communication to the server for you. It creates the directories, copies the include files and everything you need to start working with your web page. To save a web page in either of these applications, you just his the save button on the toolbar and it will save a local copy of it and save it off to the web server. Adding new pages is almost totally automated. You tell it what type of page you want to add, then it creates it on the server for you, weather it's FP or VID.
I can't recall ever having to mess with either PWS or IIS to make it work after it was installed. Once it's installed you open your Web Editor and tell it where the server is and you're done. Never even had to do any tweaking on it. It works right out of the box. Now, if you want to make it secure, that's a different story, but for development, it's a great tool to work with. Either one will work. Since you already have IIS installed, I'd use that. Just open FP and tell it to create a site. Then pull it up in your browser, you'll see how easy it is.
When you're ready to deploy to the ISP, most of the times you can FTP your pages to them or some will even take a zip file and explode your directory structure in your home directory for you.
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tribesaddict@swbell.net
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Now I understand. My experience with both PWS (Personal Web Server) and IIS is that when you create a webpage in FrontPage or Visual InterDev it does all the communication to the server for you. It creates the directories, copies the include files and everything you need to start working with your web page. To save a web page in either of these applications, you just his the save button on the toolbar and it will save a local copy of it and save it off to the web server. Adding new pages is almost totally automated. You tell it what type of page you want to add, then it creates it on the server for you, weather it's FP or VID.
I can't recall ever having to mess with either PWS or IIS to make it work after it was installed. Once it's installed you open your Web Editor and tell it where the server is and you're done. Never even had to do any tweaking on it. It works right out of the box. Now, if you want to make it secure, that's a different story, but for development, it's a great tool to work with. Either one will work. Since you already have IIS installed, I'd use that. Just open FP and tell it to create a site. Then pull it up in your browser, you'll see how easy it is.
When you're ready to deploy to the ISP, most of the times you can FTP your pages to them or some will even take a zip file and explode your directory structure in your home directory for you.
Snaggs
tribesaddict@swbell.net
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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