Rick and Zlatin,

Thanks. I'll give it a shot this weekend.

cheers

>>I have started the WROX book "Beginning ASP.NET using VB.NET".
>>It has instructions for downloading and installing ASP.NET Premium Edition (includes ASP.NET, VB.NET and the .NET Framework) and MDAC 2.7.
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>>However, it makes no mention of what installing these things will do to any of my existing and running stuff that uses IIS 5 and WebConnect and wwIPStuff, etc.
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>>Can I download and install the components WITHOUT impacting my existing and working stuff in any way? Also, will my VB6 of Visual Studio 6 remain intact and useable?
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>>The system in question is a right up-to-date Win2K.
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>>Thanks in advance
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>It all works fine, it's a pretty unintrusive install in fact. I run .Net both on my development machine and live server without any problems. My dev box (which is where most of the .Net stuff happens - not much online at this time) however is running .NET server which introduces a much more stable model for IIS that doesn't rely on COM for applications which incidentally also helps existing Web Connection applications running under COM both in stability and performance.
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>IAC, no worries - .Net doesn't interfere with the rest of your existing server installation other than memory usage whcih can be considerable especially with large ASP.Net applications.