Microsoft^® Visual InterDev™ is a Web development tool designed for programmers who want to create:

• Data-driven Web applications using a data source supported by ODBC or OLE DB, such as the database management systems from Microsoft.
  
  
• Broad-reach Web pages using HTML and script in Web applications that take advantage of the latest advances in browser technology, such as Microsoft^® Internet Explorer 4.0, Dynamic HTML and multimedia features.
  
  
• Robust development environment with a Scripting Object Model, design-time controls (DTCs), and an extensible toolbox for rapid design, testing, and debugging of your pages.
  
  
• Web teams that can develop pages in isolation and maintain ready access to a master version, or teams that include nonprogrammers who work on the master version through Microsoft^® FrontPage^®.
  
  
• Integrated solutions that can include applets or components created in Microsoft^® Visual Basic^®, Visual C++^®, Visual J++™, and Visual FoxPro^®.

Create a new Project

If you want to create a new project in Visual Interdev, do the following

Start   Programs   Microsoft Visual Studio   Microsoft Visual Interdev

This will open a new dialog box that looks like the one below

Select Visual Interdev Project, type name of the project in Name. The files relating to your project are kept in the directory listed in Location. Go ahead and click Open when you are ready.

This will open a new dialog box that looks like the one below

This dialog box asks you the location of the web server. If you do not have a hosting company, you will have to get one before you can publish web pages to the website. If you want a test server for practice, you can install Internet Information Server (Windows NT) or Personal Web Server (Windows 95/98) on your machine. For this project I am running PWS. Also I am selecting Master mode which makes changes to the website directly as you update the content. Click on Next. This will open a new dialog box that looks like the one below

For this project we will select the default name "Project 4". Notice if you did have an existing application, you could select the second option and add content to that website. Go ahead and click on Next again. This will open a new dialog box that looks like the one below

We will select none for the Layout for now. If you had selected a layout, it would have shown that in the window on the left side. The directory points to the location where the default layouts for Visual Interdev are. Click Next again. This will open a new dialog box that looks like the one below

We will select none for the Theme for now. Once again, if you had selected a theme, it would show you what it looks like on the left side. The directory points to the location of the default themes for Visual Interdev. Click Finish to create the website. This will take a minute or so while the application loads all the appropriate file from the web server into your application.