real newbie question

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Colin Basterfield

Hi,

I am new to the framework in the area of ASP.NET and web interfaces, and web
development in general, so this is a really stoopid question!

If on my web server I have the dotNet framework, do the people who are
viewing the web site over the internet need also to have the framwork
installed?

Many thanks in advance
Colin B
 
Hello mate

as the people will be browsing the site that is on your server, and your server has the framework on, a user will not need it. ASP.net reders all the controls etc in an ASPX page as HTML. Try viewing the source of a running ASPX page that has a DataGrid or Button in

The user would only ever need the framework if they were running a Windows app on their machine

HTH

Jon
 
Many thanks!

That seemed the most logical answer, but I wanted to be sure...

I have another question then, if I have a web server which has the framework
on, do I need any other web server software on like Apache or something???

Cheers
Colin B
 
W2K server and W2K3 server come with IIS, which is Microsoft's web server.

(actually, W2K Pro and even XP come with scaled-down versions of IIS)

DT
 
Hi,

Thanks for that. I heard that XP Pro allows 10 simultaneous connections, is
that what you meant by a scaled down version?

Cheers
Colin
 
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