Tuesday, August 31, 2010

How to set up ASP.NET

This is for Windows 7, and i spent a couple hours trying to figure out how to make this work so i can create webpages, and do web programming with ASP.NET.

Instructions on how to get IIS working with ASP.NET. You type in 127.0.0.1 aspbasics in the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc file

Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features – then turn windows features on and off

Control Panel\System and Security\Administrative Tools to get to IIS

C:\inetpub\wwwroot is the virtual directory folder where I will put together all the ASP.NET webpages

Key notes of explaination: IIS stands for Internet Information Services. It is a web server application. It has a set of features created by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows. It is second best to in web servers. Apache HTTP Server is more popular.

PS: remember you can copy and past into the directory path of any Windows' window. Thats the path for example: C:\documents etc etc..