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Listed below are some questions and answers from the last user group meeting. Q: I have alot of VBA experience and would like to learn VB.Net. What resources are available that can help with this? A: There are several sites available online to assist with this. For starters, check out the following links: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/beginner http://safari.oreilly.com http://www.bookpool.com http://www.nerdbooks.com Q: I created an application as a web site. Is there difference in deploying it between a web site application and a web project application? Is there any way to deploy it as a web site application? A: ASP.Net 2.0 "web sites" are different from the "web projects" you worked with in VS2003. Deploying a web site in VS2005 requires a different procedure (see http://www.odetocode.com/Articles/417.aspx for more information). If you want to build and deploy web applications in VS2005 the same way you d...

Listed below are follow-up questions from our last user group meeting on DotNetNuke. Q: What are the System Requirements for DNN? A: Win2003 server, IIS, ASP.Net 2.0 Q: Does DNN install as a "web-site" or does it take over IIS? A: DNN installs as a simple web site application. Installation in simple, and by Default it installs with SQL Server Express. Q: Can DNN sites be crawled by internet search engines? A: DNN sites can be crawled. The menu actually checks the HTTP user agent string to see if a spider is hitting the site and presents an alternative menu to make it easier for the spider to crawl the site. Q: Is everything stored in the DB, much like SharePoint? A: Most items are in the DB, much like SharePoint. Some organizations do DB migrations to move all content. There are some .JPG files or other resource files that are not stored in the DB directly. For the most part, everything is stored in the DB. Q: Can SharePoint or ASP.Net 2.0 web parts be incorporated into D...