What is neccessary?

Anyone's response would be appreciated.

I am a rookie on asp.net,I wanna use VB to write my website.The problem is I have no idea about which component I should install.The vb.net and theVisual web developer and .net framework?

Is that enough or only vb.net is just ok? Thanks.

Hi,

If you have Windows XP Pro as your home machine, you'd want to install IIS (Internet Information Server/Services) to it. It's available on Windows Components (Add/Remove programs tool in XP). Visual Web Developer has a built-in web server which migh suffice depending on how complex stuff you are developing.

Visual Basic .NET is one of programming languages in .NET and you get support for it by installing .NET Framework, you don't need to install anything specific in order to get it..

So to summarize:

If you want IIS, install it first. Visual Web Developer installs .NET Framework 2.0 by default, if memory serves, so basically by downloading VWD, you get all the other software you need.

Hi,

As suggested by first you will need to install IIS in your machine. Presuming that you have XP, follow the URL below which will give you step by step detail of installing IIS.

Installing IIS on Windows XP Pro

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

You can then install Visual Web Developer. But I will suggest to go for Visual Studio .NET instead if you really want to involve in serious web development profession. With Visual Web Developer IDE you will find very limited purview to explore and most of the stuffs can be achieved by just dragging and dropping things on page. IMO, you will not going to learn VB any thing serious using Visual Web Developer. So go for VS.NET from very beginning. This is just my suggestion.

Ok, move back to installation. With installation of VS.NET, setup will also install .NET framework for you. And so you don't need to install .NET independently.

You don't need to install other component and third party tools to develop web application. But as your project demands, you can then select thousand of third party components, developer productivity tools, application framework etc.

Regards,

Firoz Ansari

firoz.ansari wrote:

You can then install Visual Web Developer. But I will suggest to go for Visual Studio .NET instead if you really want to involve in serious web development profession. With Visual Web Developer IDE you will find very limited purview to explore and most of the stuffs can be achieved by just dragging and dropping things on page. IMO, you will not going to learn VB any thing serious using Visual Web Developer. So go for VS.NET from very beginning. This is just my suggestion.

I 100% agree if VS is available then using it is a must. But if not, and speaking about what you can do with VB (as programming language), I wouldn't totally agree with point & click view. You can write code with VWD. :-)

But of course, all these VWD tutorials etc always point the easiness, and no-code approach, so it's quite evident that you get that feeling, but it doesn't mean you couldn't learn to use VB.NET with VWD.

It's more structural & organizational stuff like having class libraries available, plus that you all these latest extensions and additions like Web Deployment Projects, Web Application projects etc etc, since they do not support VWD. So yes, that is professional stuff that you get with VS.NET.

Thanks for all your detailed reply.

So I have two options.

1.All I need is a VWD.

2.IIS + VB.net Am I right?

The second choice would be more interesting, and I am really crazy about writting code!Although the VWD is easier.

So I will choose the second.

I am a student in china.I wanna be a proficient in ASP.net.I hope we can be friends.

Zorro wrote:

So I have two options.

1.All I need is a VWD.

2.IIS + VB.net Am I right?

The second choice would be more interesting, and I am really crazy about writting code!Although the VWD is easier.

Umm, not exactly what I meant. You can have both three, and you can still write code. VWD does not prevent you writing code yourself. :-) Visual Web Developer is just IDE which you can use to develop web applications (though simpler by their nature due to previously mentioned reasons), and it supports VB, C# etc.

If you mean with VB desktop applications, you can also download VS2005 Express Editions (Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition). They are mentioned and explained behind following link:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.aspx