IIS/PWS

Hi. I've been developing a stand-alone VB6 reporting package, and now the boss wants to get this on the web. I reckon that we want the processing to be done on our server etc., and after about 30 seconds looking around it seemed like IIS/PWS was the answer.

Now for my questions:

1) Am I right?

2) What's the difference between PWS and IIS (or ain't there none?)

3) Can anyone recommend a book to get me started in this area?

Thanks, you're all gems...

Hi coox.

1. Yes you are Right but you will have to do 1 of two things. Either way your going to need yo use ASP to accomplish this and as I said you can do it in two ways. One is to change all your VB code from your stand alone into VB script within your ASP or secondly you can compile all your VB Code into an ActiveX dll and get your ASP to reference it.

2. The differences between IIS AND PWS are quite a lot.

PWS is normally asociated with small intranet services wheras IIS is your wham bam thankyou mam Web server. PWS can only be run on an intranet and cannot be used as a complete web server. You need to be running NT For IIS but it has a lot more control over what you can do.

If the company you are working in is quite small then PWS will probably surfice. But if you are expecting a lot of users to be accessing this site then I would strongly advise IIS.

The Good news is that both PWS (on The 98 CD and IIS (On the NT option pack which can be downloaded from microsoft) are completly Free.

Hope this Helps

Ian

Superb Ianpbaker! Thanks very much.

Can anyone recommend any books on the subject?