Re: Complete takeover by .NET?

From: Chewy509 (Chewy509.doesnt.like.spam_at_austarnet.com.au)
Date: 10/03/04 

Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 09:25:17 +1000

"Jim Carlock" wrote in message...
> "Beth" wrote:
>> The way I prefer is to refer to these things as "command-line"
>> applications ...
>
> Thanks, Beth.
>
> Alot of people refer to them as "console apps".
>
> I also discovered that XP SP2 installs .Net 1.1 without
> asking if it should be installed.

I read somewhere that parts of Office2003 was rewritten using the .NET
framework, so installing an update to the .Net framework is probably a good
thing. Most people seem to forget that the .Net framework is a lot like
DirectX, it's just an add-on library that provides additional functionality.
(It's no way related to DirectX, just using it as an example). Including
.NET within SP2, is just one of those things that will make life easier for
Joe User Six-pack. PITA for us, but not for them.

> I found a new user id on my system, .Net ASP, and I asked
> about it in the XP newsgroup. If anyone wants to follow the
> thread there, the title is:
>
> "ASP.Net Account, Performance Settings, and Data Execution Prevention"
>
> I did delete the ASP.Net account that SP2 had set up and
> far so good. No one explained what it is yet.

IIRC. the account is used by the ASP engine built into IIS, to provide .NET
extensions, and is used as the account that executes ASP.NET applications.
You only need this account, if you are running IIS on your local box, and
also running ASP.NET applications within IIS on your local box.

The purpose of the account is to provide ASP.NET applications a user account
to run under, (It's not possible to run applications under the
IUSER_<machine> account in IIS, so MS provides a user account for those apps
to run under). IIRC in the default configuration is that account is
sandboxed into IIS for security reasons.

> But there's a link here that suggests it is a Microsoft attempt to
> force people to use Internet Explorer to access the Internet, and
> that might happen if Microsoft's ASP .Net takes off like they
> want it to.
> http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/aspdot.php

I suggest you take off your tin-foil hat. ASP.NET is server-side, and has
nothing to do with the client, (unless your using custom ActiveX controls). 

-- 
Darran (aka Chewy509)...

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