Preparing for ASP 3.0

[Phil Parr]

Hello All,

Newbie here - looking to set up an ASP 3.0 environment (my employer's
preference) on my own box (localhost). Just looking for a link (or links) to
articles about installing IIS to a WindowsXP box and making it play nice with
ASP 3.0. I'm familiar with installing IIS, just not sure about the "playing
nice" part. Does simply installing IIS do the trick? Or will there be system
tweaks etc. involved. I'm finding tons of stuff for Win2000 but nothing for
deploying on XP Pro.

Also - from poking around here I suspect that Dreamweaver only speaks 2.0?
Okay if so (as I'm ready to hand code), but any tips, articles that are
DWMX2004/ASP 3.0 would be much appreciated. PS - Just ordered
[url]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590593499/ref=pd_sim_b_1/002-1759[/url]
356-2098446?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance

Thanks in advance.

[Chris In Madison]

AFAIK, installing IIS on XP Pro is pretty much all you need to do to have
ASP running. However, I don't use XP so I don't know for sure. I seem to
recall on WinServer 2003 that you have to specifically enable it because of
the lockdown it ships with. But don't know if it applies to XP.

As for Dreamweaver, you're right. It only speaks ASP2. However, the
differences in the object model between ASP2 and ASP3 are really, really
minimal. Most of the changes in ASP3 are in performance and back-end stuff.
There are two new Server object methods, Server.Transfer and Server.Execute,
that are useful, but Dreamweaver doesn't know anything about those. And
there were a couple of Error/Err object methods that have changed. But
Dreamweaver pretty much doesn't do anything with those objects, either.

So, for programming ASP3, Dreamweaver should serve you very well. :-)

Best regards,
Chris

[clintonG]

When discussing the use of IIS XP Pro is fundamentally the same as Windows
2000 Pro Phil.

There is really only one significant difference between ASP 2.0 and ASP 3.0,
that being the added support for additional transfer and execute methods of
the Server object supported by ASP 3.0. So any version of DMX will still do.

As for books to learn to actually code ASP --- the best book ever written
on this topic -- was published by WROX "Begining Active Server Pages 2.0"
which is a discontinued classic that can still be found via Amazon for as
low as $5.00.

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"Phil Parr" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hello All,
>
> Newbie here - looking to set up an ASP 3.0 environment (my employer's
> preference) on my own box (localhost). Just looking for a link (or links)
> to
> articles about installing IIS to a WindowsXP box and making it play nice
> with
> ASP 3.0. I'm familiar with installing IIS, just not sure about the
> "playing
> nice" part. Does simply installing IIS do the trick? Or will there be
> system
> tweaks etc. involved. I'm finding tons of stuff for Win2000 but nothing
> for
> deploying on XP Pro.
>
> Also - from poking around here I suspect that Dreamweaver only speaks 2.0?
> Okay if so (as I'm ready to hand code), but any tips, articles that are
> DWMX2004/ASP 3.0 would be much appreciated. PS - Just ordered
> [url]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590593499/ref=pd_sim_b_1/002-1759[/url]
> 356-2098446?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
>
> Thanks in advance.
>