Evan,

>I can run multiple apps, no?. One production instance of the app, one dev instance of the app. Is there something I am missing?
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>My active server pages in the dev environment would call the dev COM components which would call my dev SQL database, all on the same NT box as the live system. What would not work? Are you concerned about the server being brought down by dev code that still isn't completely debugged?

It may be a little more complicated if you're doing any script-mapping, especially with the Web Connection stuff. As long as you can keep things separated out into different Web App directories, with different pathing to your test data files, etc, I guess that might be workable.

I was thinking more of you sitting at the development machine to do the development and hitting conflicts with the users trying to use the live app at the same time, and yes, I'd be concerned about development testing, etc causing IIS to need restarting, etc.

Personally, I *much* prefer my present setup of developing with Web Connection on one NT box at home and also 1 at work, that are both separate from the live NT box. No worries for only a slight extra cost...