VS2005 Web Dev Express and Frontpage/Sharepoint

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Rodger Barnett - 01 Dec 2005 23:23 GMT

Hello
I have a few questions which are probably quite obvious to the experts.
I downloaded VS2005 Express because I was looking for a 'better' ASP tool to
use with FrontPage and FP Server Extensions 2002 don't appear to work with
Visual InterDev (it was also free!)

Question 1
When I try to open a local IIS website created with FrontPage 2003, I get an
error say Visual Web Developer does not support opening Sharepoint Websites.
Is this just a restriction for a cut down version and can anything be done
about it?

Similar it is not possible to create a new website on my IIS - I get the
message Visual Web Developer does not support creating websites on a
Sharepoint server. Can anything be done with this

Question 2
Can VS2005 Web Dev Express be used with ASP3.0 or is it only for ASP.net

Question 3
Will it integrate with Access databases or only SQL server?

My configuration
Win XP Pro SP2 + IIS5.1 (just the built in version)
Office/FrontPage2003 with FrontPage 2002 server extensions
If I have got Sharepoint services, I don't know how to switch them off.

Thanks for any help

Rodger

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Sylvain Lafontaine - 02 Dec 2005 20:00 GMT

On how to create new web sites with VWD:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/ms186104(en-US,VS.80).aspx

For the server extensions, open the Internet Information Services Management
Consol, right-click on the web site and proper virtual directory and choose
"All Tasks" -> "Remove Server Extensions" but usually, I don't touch them.
Instead, I create a new Virtual Directory, set it as an application (I think
that creating a new virtual directory as an application is now the default
with PWS 5.1), set the version to 2 in its ASP.NET properties and use this
as my new web site application with VS.NET 2005. For the later step, you
can choose to open the web site application as a web site under IIS or to
open directly the physical repertory that has been created behind the
virtual repertory.

You can also directly use a physical repertory for your new project with
VS.NET 2005 because it has now its own mini-web server but some
functionalities will be missing.

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> Hello
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> Rodger

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