rookie trying to understand asp.net

Hello,

Question: Can I NOT create asp.net apps if I don't have server software on my local machine? How about if I have a remote server account that is running windows 2003 server?

I have just upgraded to Visual Studio.NET Pro. and have been having a hard time trying to understand how to create some asp.net apps. I'm just going through some tutorials (vb.net step by step by Halvorson and asp.net step by step by Duthie) and am flailling at even opening asp.net exercises from the above books. Does anyone have any advice on how to set up?

I am assuming that I can create asp.net apps on my local machine running Windows 2k SP4 and Visual Studio.NET 2003 and deploy them on remote servers. Is that logic right?

You have to have IIS installed on your local machine, or have network access to it on a remote machine or you can't even create a new webforms project.

To add to what reboot said: you must have IIS installed to create ASP.NET projects, but IIS should have been installed BEFORE installing VS.NET. If IIS was not installed first, and you're having a hard time creating or opening web apps, try this:

1) Browse to C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework 2
2) Find the directory where the framework has been installed (could be v1.0.3705 or v1.1.4322 - select the most recent) and open it up.
3) In this folder, there should be a file called aspnet_regiis.exe. Run this file from a command prompt with the /i switch.
4) IIS should now be setup to run ASP.NET web applications. I usually create a virtual directory for each new web project I create on my local machine.