Origional Question:

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Hi Scott,



1) Currently ASP.net works only on Windows 2000 (as web server). Does

Microsoft plan to support Windows 98 or Windows ME in the future?



2) When creating a .ascs page in VS.net, the code shows in a unique

color

(black), instead of the color coding that separates the different

elements

and tags as in the .aspx pages. Is there some setting that I need to

change

in order to make it work, or it's intended to be this way?



Thanks.



-German Porta



ScottGu Answer:

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Hi German,



Some answers to your questions below:



1) ASP.NET V1 won't support Win98 or WinME.  However, we are

investigating ways for V2 that we can support these OS as development

platforms (meaning you can develop ASP.NET applications on them and test

them with a mini-web server).  We think this is a super compelling

scenario that we should support.



2) Unfourtunately VS.NET Beta1 doesn't have good support for .ascx user

controls (there are some bugs preventing it from working).  However,

VS.NET Beta2 will fix these -- and actually provides a pretty great

story.  Until then, unfourtunately, there isn't a great work around.

Sorry! :-(



Hope this helps,



Scott