VB Learning Help

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Ricky W. Hunt

I have two mixed questions, sorry for the unclear subject line.

I downloaded the Visual Basic Resource Kit from MS but I can't get it to
work. I have WinXP Home so I don't know if that's part of the problem. If it
is, how in the world do I use the kit to learn? (How do I do the tutorials,
etc.)? I can sometimes get the main screen up fine and sometimes the second
screen where it says "Control Concepts" (or something like that) among other
things. Other times it's just blank or hangs my complete system and I have
to reboot. Can you not run aspx files on XP Home?

Second, I also downloaded the VB 2005 Express Beta as I heard on this NG it
had some got learning material. Is it safe to install it on my computer with
my Visual Basic .NET 2003?
 
* "Ricky W. Hunt said:
I downloaded the Visual Basic Resource Kit from MS but I can't get it to
work. I have WinXP Home so I don't know if that's part of the problem. If it
is, how in the world do I use the kit to learn? (How do I do the tutorials,
etc.)? I can sometimes get the main screen up fine and sometimes the second
screen where it says "Control Concepts" (or something like that) among other
things. Other times it's just blank or hangs my complete system and I have
to reboot. Can you not run aspx files on XP Home?
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I have not yet worked with that, so I am not able to give you an answer
on this question.
Second, I also downloaded the VB 2005 Express Beta as I heard on this NG it
had some got learning material. Is it safe to install it on my computer with
my Visual Basic .NET 2003?
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Don't install it on a production machine. So, if you depend on that
machine, do not install it. I have heard that VS.NET 2003 didn't work
after installing 2005, and I would try to avoid that.
 
Don't install it on a production machine. So, if you depend on that
machine, do not install it. I have heard that VS.NET 2003 didn't work
after installing 2005, and I would try to avoid that.
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Thanks. I found out you can't run ASP on WinXP home.


Does anyone know how to "use" the VS Resource Kit when you can't run ASP
then? There's seems to be a lot of HTML and video on there but no "central"
or menu or index.htm to drive it and tie it all together.
 
I can't answer your first question in any detail - I've got XP Pro - but I
know that IIS doesn't run/come with XP Home. Have a search in this
newsgroup - I've seen links to the "How to fix VB.NET resource kit
installation problems" a few times in here.

The second question is easy - yes. They install side by side with no
problems at all. Just make sure you install the .NET Framework v2.0 beta
first.

Happy learning :D
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The Grim Reaper
 
The Grim Reaper said:
I can't answer your first question in any detail - I've got XP Pro - but I
know that IIS doesn't run/come with XP Home. Have a search in this
newsgroup - I've seen links to the "How to fix VB.NET resource kit
installation problems" a few times in here.

The second question is easy - yes. They install side by side with no
problems at all. Just make sure you install the .NET Framework v2.0 beta
first.
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Thanks.
 
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