.NET (Core and Framework)

Just for everyones info if you ever get that error I got above, do a fresh re-install. After I nuked my PC and then re-installed VS.Net Beta 2 things worked great. Just ensure you have plenty of free space, especially on your C: drive. regards, Paul Watson Cape Town, South Africa e: paulmwatson@email.com w: vergen.org

One of the better histories for .Net is in http://www.dnjonline.com/articles/essentials/iss24\_essentials.html Also - check through the archives of http://www.dotnetwire.com - there is an article about ".Net from a J2EE" perspective that is excellent. I used these two resources and MSDN when I wrote a white paper for my company. Dale Thompson

Yes but don't compile any production code with VB6 as some of the components will be pulled from .Net and installed on the client machine.

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First the obvious: You know of course that the first time the webservice is run it has to be compiled? Well if you did not know that, now you do and that is the reason why on first access a web service is so slow. Once it has been compiled though it should be pretty quick. Second Answer: 30 seconds does seem a long time, sure your hosting provider or internet connection is up to scratch? Even from down here in South Africa I can access microsoft example webservices with a max time of 10 seconds. For example I did a test on the UDDI site and it took 6 seconds, which is pretty good considering CNN.com takes 30 seconds to load through my internet browser. Third Answer: Webservices are not meant to be performance applications. They are not meant to replace hand coded C++ or assembler modules which calculate the positon of every star in the galaxy in under 2 seconds. On my local webserver they are pretty fast compared to usual ASP code (seeing as ASP+ is compiled now) but still nothing compared to C++ app's. Also there are a lot of layers to navigate and methods been called behind the scenes when you use a webservice request. I know none of those were solution-answers, but maybe at least one answered part of what you asked. :-D regards, Paul Watson Cape Town, South Africa e: paulmwatson@email.com w: vergen.org

I looked around on the web and found only one free ASP.NET provider - brinkster.com - but they do not offer ftp access so I have to upload each file through their web admin interface... Not really convinient for a large project. Anybody know of some other free ASP.NET provider? "A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one." - Senator Palpatine

For all those who think that J2EE is new, take a look at J2EE which has only recently launched, Then take a look at MTS & DCOM - J2EE is such a blatant rip-off it's frightening. Unfortunately, anyone programming to J2EE is going to suffer from having to write too much plumbing and from having an inherently inefficient execution engine to run within. The beauty if .NET is that it makes the whole language discussion mute - language no longer matters - some will prefer VB, some COBOL, some Java, some Eiffel (!) and many will prefer C# - it matters not, they're all supported. What will matter is the platform, execution environment, ease of deployment, debugging, maintaining solutions and your speed to market with those solutions. Java simply can't compete with .NET - it's too far behind. Rich.T.

Sorry, this is wrong: Visual Studio.NET B1 was shipped a couple of months ago to all MSDN pro and universal subscribers, and B2 will be shipped to these same subscribers when released. Rich.T.

Tried that but getting the same error....:confused: Thanx anyway..

Try installing from your hd instead. Transfer the content of the two cd's to a single folder. It worked for me. ;)