ASP.NET with VB

[LiLMsNinja]

OK!.. First of all i'm in hell and about to kill a small animal. I am taking an ASP.NET with VB course at DeVry, and having huge issues.

I am using Visual Web Developer 2008 Express even though the class asks and teaches with VS 05 (apparently i like to be a rebel). I am apparently capable of *cough*pirating*cough* every application under the sun BUT VS 2005. To top it off, I stand firm that 08 Express will be more than sufficient once i manage to get over these stupid and basic issues:

-- For some reason the typical asp.net w/ vb comment code of a single quote doesn't work in 08. Even though in the help file it states 'use a single quote for comments' it still doesn't work. I have to use old-school html comment code.

-- Format - Justify - Center is not there in 08. This is just very annoying to me, mostly because the tutorials and things for class(which teach on 05) have steps that include this function. My only alternate solution is: 1) for an image file i wrap it in a <P> element with a style attribute. 2) for text basically the same thing, another style attribute.

-- In 08 Express i cannot Ctrl or Shift + click on multiple text boxes in order to use the format toolbar (align things). So for an assignment i was forced to insert the labels and text boxes into a table. Which is more efficient?

-- I'm trying to mess around with publishing a basic .aspx website. So, in the help file it says goto Build > Publish projectName there is no such thing as PUBLISH anything in the 'Build' Menu.

-- How do i know if my personal .com supports ASP.NET, .aspx. I've looked all over my hosting company's site.. can't find CRAP!

--I'm currently building projects on my local IIS. What are the differences between developing on a local IIS and just doing file system?

Please help!

[Xav]

You can't compile an ASP.NET website. It's simply .aspx files, and that's pretty much it. I think there's some icon somewhere on a toolbar that aligns things to the centre, or you can set the align property in the properties window. It's true, VWD 2008 does have a few slight quirks, which makes professional (and expensive) software preferable.