icyorange Posted February 1, 2004 Share Posted February 1, 2004 Hi, On my PC at the moment I use the IIS webserver to test my ASP pages before uploading them to my web server. This allows me to check any databases (MS Access) that i'm using are functioning as they should. Obviously Mac's don't have IIS, and as far as I can see there's no ASP compatible web server for it. However, Dreamweaver sort of has its own built-in testing server - would I be able to test my ASP pages offline using that? Does anybody know if i'd be able to connect to Access databases with that too? I know they don't make Access for Mac's, but I could use VPC to make changes to the actual database file if needed. Bit of a complex question, hope you guys can help me out. I was reading this review which said: While we're talking about platforms, anyone out there developing ASP.NET pages from a workstation running Mac OS X? Well, it's supported if you buy the Mac version. Try and find another program that gives you this level of ASP.NET support on a MAC!, so that got me thinking that maybe standard ASP (not .NET) would work in the same way. :) Cheers, Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted February 1, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 1, 2004 They're refering to the support of Dreamweaver to highlight and recognize ASP.Net code, not interpret and run it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icyorange Posted February 1, 2004 Author Share Posted February 1, 2004 OK, thanks... that's a bit of a pain really, I don't want to be doing all my ASP development in VPC... i've gotta think carefully about if moving to Mac is a good idea for me then. I know learning PHP would be better anyway but I just don't have the time and going the ASP way is working fine for me at the moment. :) Cheers, Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted February 1, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 1, 2004 Well, you can run IIS in VPC and just connect to it from your Mac. You can pop up VPC for running Access occasionally, but for the most part you can leave it running in the background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Posted February 1, 2004 Share Posted February 1, 2004 The learning curve from ASP > PHP isn't that big. For me, anyone, they weren't a lot different. Obviously the function names are different, but if you've got a grounding in ASP it shouldn't be difficult for you to look up the PHP function you need. And then, of course, you get to use MySQL too. :) You could carry on using access, but I would switch to MySQL for it's (almost) platform independence. Make the jump. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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