Have to update a site with aspx extensions

Report · May 16, 2009

I have been put in a position to have to update a site that, from what I see on the Internet, has all aspx extensions. I have no experience in aspx and hope I can get by enough to update a few pages until the site is re-done. I have CS4 running on XP home. I can update to pro if I really need to since from what little I understand so far I might have to run a service / server environment to test pages that requires XP Pro. I don't have access to the server yet but am trying to get a heads up on what to expect. Appreciate any help and guidance.

Report · May 16, 2009

I hate to tell ya, but if the site is all .Net Dreamweaver is not the tool for the job. Formerly DW only supported .Net 1.0 which is long since retired, and DW... any version has 0 support for .Net 2.0. You'll need to look to Microsoft tools 😞

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Report · May 17, 2009

Thanx Lawrence. I know there was limited support in older Dreamweaver but the new CS4 has none. I don't know the history of the site in question but it is as plain a site as there is and don't see why I can't convert it to straight html. I did a capture of the site usng WinHT and have a totally working site now on my computer in HTML. I suppose if worse comes to worse I can make the minor updates needed and rename the pages back to aspx extension and it should work for the month or two needed. Would that work?

Report · May 18, 2009

I don't think that will work. You can't change the extension to aspx from the files you captured. The original files have server side code that you wouldn't see if you downloaded the HTML from the web. You will need the original files from the server. If you are only editing the HTML part of the website I think you will be ok. Just don't mess with the code if you don't need to. Then just upload the pages back to the server. If you have to do coding or change the coding you may have to download the Microsoft VWD which is a whole other animal to me at least. Good luck.

Report · May 18, 2009

Thank you juresti for your help. I don't see anything on the site except for contact forms which requires code of any kind other than HTML. I should have access to the server soon so I guess I'll dig in then. Probably more from me on this later.

Thanx again all!