ASP.NET 1.0 Released!

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ASP.NET has officially been released today! No longer are we in beta code. To download ASP.NET, visit http://www.asp.net/<BR><BR>The download for version 1.0 clocks in at ~21 MB for just the .NET Framework and runtime. If you want the full samples and docs, be prepared for a 131 MB download. As with the Beta 2, you will need to be running a version of Windows 2000 or Windows XP that has IIS installed to use ASP.NET.It's 'freeware', but I can't develop with it? <BR><BR>I mean, I've looked around -- Obviously I couldn't code VB.Net or C# in those pages unless I have VS.Net?<BR><BR>So it's 'freeware' with a catch?> Obviously I couldn't code VB.Net or C# in those pages <BR>> unless I have VS.Net<BR><BR>False. It would not be easy, but you could use VB.NET/C# without VS.NET. The .NET Framework download includes VB.NET and C# command-line compilers (vbc.exe and csc.exe, respectively). You could write your source code in Notepad and compile via the command line. Trust me, I did this _numerous_ times back before VS.NET was up to snuff.<BR><BR>Also, ASP.NET pages do not need VS.NET. Just like with classic ASP, you can use your editor of choice (Notepad, HomeSite, VS.NET, Visual InterDev 6.0 (used that quite a bit before I started using VS.NET)), etc.'Microsoft' and 'Free'.<BR><BR>I imagined that you could use VBS/JS with the new ASP.Net if you didn't have VS.Net... didn't know they'd release a compiler for their new languages...<BR><BR>I haven't kept up on these techs yet. I'm stuck doing C++ COM, from which somebody just told me yesterday, that .Net is supposed to make COM obsolete. Don't know if that's true or not... Ugh. Nuthin' like learning a dated technology.