Rick
thanks for the advice, have web matrix and will start playing soon. on another note I was only looking at your site again a few days ago at the new papers you have written, great work I think that they are very good.
Slán
~M

>You can do that as ASP.Net doesn't require anything special.
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>The minimum requirements are:
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>* A virtual directory marked as an application in IIS
>* A BIN subdirectory
>* And a web.config (not required, but usually a good idea)
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>I'd recommend you use Web Matrix which you can get from www.asp.net, which is a free, limited but pretty good IDE designed for ASP.Net development. Unlike VS.Net it uses a single file model to create ASP.Net pages which is easier to deal with for simple things.
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>+++ Rick ---
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>>hi,
>>I am redoing a web site and have decided to move from html + css to asp.net. I already have asp skills but want to play around with asp.net a bit. firstly the site does not need .net or any database functionality,i know that there are some out there that will say all sites should be but really this one doesn't. i want to do this so that i can start with basics and move forward, the only problem is that i am not too sure where to start from. i created a solution and also a project but neither were easy to work with and the project actually gave me errors from it own code! can i just create single .aspx pages and link them or do i really need to create a project/solution to harness the full power of .net? i was thinking of using c# as the language as well. any help etc much appreciated.
>>Slán
>>~M