Your First ASP.NET Application
Start Visual Studio .NET and choose to create a new Visual Basic project using the ASP.NET Web Application project type and name the project WebAppTest. Notice, as shown in Figure 8.1, that the location of the project is an HTTP address, not a directory on the machine. The server to which you connect must have Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 or higher. Windows 2000 ships with IIS 5.0, so if your Web server is running Windows 2000, you are fine. Don't forget, however, that IIS does not install, by default, on Windows 2000 Professional. The server must also have the .NET Framework loaded, so you might want to use your local machine as the Web server.
Figure 8.1. Creating a Web Application project requires a ...
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