Can Web Matrix be used with a MS Access database? How about Oracle?

When I download Matrix ... it said I needed VB.NET loaded too... when I 
loaded VB.NET it said I needed IIS .... do I really need IIS too on my 
machine.... or what is the simplist way to load Matrix?

thanks

dave

Dave:

You must have IIS loaded before you load the .NET Framework. 

There should be no problems using MS Access.

On the Web Matrix site, there is documentation for a Wrox book about how
to install it. You may want to read it through.

Charles


-----Original Message-----
From: david potter [mailto:djpotte@p...] 
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 5:13 PM
To: aspx_beginners
Subject: [aspx_beginners] Web Matrix: Can it use MS ACCESS databases?
How to load Matrix?

Can Web Matrix be used with a MS Access database? How about Oracle?

When I download Matrix ... it said I needed VB.NET loaded too... when I 
loaded VB.NET it said I needed IIS .... do I really need IIS too on my 
machine.... or what is the simplist way to load Matrix?

thanks

dave

Dave

You certainly don't need IIS. I assume you downloaded the tool from here?
http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/download.aspx?tabindex=4

This should help you get the order right and so on.

When very important word of warning... if you do decide to go with ASP.NET
for your intranet, you will need IIS on the server machine. Web Matrix comes
with its own development server, but you can only use it for local requests
(i.e. you can only view pages on the same computer as the server's running).
To server pages to other computers on a network, you need IIS.

Web Matrix is really set up for use with MSDE and SQL Server -- so the
built-in database support for Access is poor-to-non-existent. However,
ASP.NET itself is quite happy to use an Access database -- but you'll need
to do a bit more hand coding. Also Beginning Dynamic Websites does assume
that you're using MSDE, which comes on the CD with the book, so you'll need
to look at some online documentation or pick another book if you want to use
Access databases. Maybe Beginning ASP.NET would be the best choice after
all.

Use MSDE if you can though .... it's great... a sort-of cut down SQL Server,
and it's free. :)

Hope this helps.

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: david potter [mailto:djpotte@p...]
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 5:13 PM
> To: aspx_beginners
> Subject: [aspx_beginners] Web Matrix: Can it use MS ACCESS databases?
> How to load Matrix?
> 
> 
> Can Web Matrix be used with a MS Access database? How about Oracle?
> 
> When I download Matrix ... it said I needed VB.NET loaded 
> too... when I 
> loaded VB.NET it said I needed IIS .... do I really need IIS 
> too on my 
> machine.... or what is the simplist way to load Matrix?
> 
> thanks
> 
> dave
> 

I just worked on Web Matrix on a day n wht i know that it has its own web
server. So, i suppose u dont need a web server or iis if u hv web matrix
installed.

-----Original Message-----
From: david potter [mailto:djpotte@p...]
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 5:13 PM
To: aspx_beginners
Subject: [aspx_beginners] Web Matrix: Can it use MS ACCESS databases?
How to load Matrix?


Can Web Matrix be used with a MS Access database? How about Oracle?

When I download Matrix ... it said I needed VB.NET loaded too... when I
loaded VB.NET it said I needed IIS .... do I really need IIS too on my
machine.... or what is the simplist way to load Matrix?

thanks

dave

The web server that comes with webmatrix is only good as a personal web
server for development, u need iis to handle multiple connections, iis
should be installed before the .net framework, if not u will have
problems for which there are fixes but it's not always easy to fix the
problems. I suggest you install iis before you do anything else and make
sure iis is running when u intall the .net framework.


-----Original Message-----
From: Rohit Arora [mailto:rohit_arora@i...] 
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 11:31 PM
To: aspx_beginners
Subject: [aspx_beginners] RE: Web Matrix: Can it use MS ACCESS
databases? How to load Matrix?


I just worked on Web Matrix on a day n wht i know that it has its own
web server. So, i suppose u dont need a web server or iis if u hv web
matrix installed.

-----Original Message-----
From: david potter [mailto:djpotte@p...]
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 5:13 PM
To: aspx_beginners
Subject: [aspx_beginners] Web Matrix: Can it use MS ACCESS databases?
How to load Matrix?


Can Web Matrix be used with a MS Access database? How about Oracle?

When I download Matrix ... it said I needed VB.NET loaded too... when I
loaded VB.NET it said I needed IIS .... do I really need IIS too on my
machine.... or what is the simplist way to load Matrix?

thanks

dave
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