I've been developing asp.net web apps for a year, and we finally
purchased vs.net 03. I'm stumbling around trying to use the IDE and I
have a few questions... maybe someone could point me to a good
tutorial or book but I haven't found what I'm looking for yet.
1) When I create a new web app project, does it have to be in my
inetpub/wwwroot folder? Can I create a virtual host and put the
project in my c:\dvl\webapps folder?
2) How do I add a .net dll component to the project? I used to just
compile the component from the command line, put the dll in the web
app's bin directory, and add the imports statement to my page's
code... now this method doesn't seem to be working and I'm assuming I
have to associate the component with the project in some way.

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If you create a virtual directory first, you can then create a new asp.net
project and point it to http://localhost/virtualDirectoryName.

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In the Solution Explorer window, just right click the "References" icon and
choose to Add Reference. The .NET Framework assemblies show up
automatically in the list you'll see, but you can hit "Browse" to find the
..NET component you want.

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