Create a New Solution in Visual InterDev

These instructions assume you are developing on a system other than your eProcess Services web server. Refer to the appropriate Microsoft Developer's Network documentation for information on using Visual InterDev to develop applications in a distributed environment.

After you have installed an eProcess Services server successfully, you can create a new solution in Visual InterDev. If you have not already done so, you should install the FrontPage Extensions on your Internet Information Server (IIS) web server. With the FrontPage Extensions installed on the IIS server, you can develop your web application on a remote system and publish the updated application content directly to the root directory of your web application.

Create a new solution by performing the following steps:

  1. If you have not already done so, open Visual InterDev.
  2. From the menu bar, select File. From the pull-down list, select New Project.
  3. With Visual InterDev Projects highlighted, select New Web Project. Supply a name and location for the project. For example, eProcess, and C:\My Documents\Visual Studio Projects\eProcess.
  4. Click Open.
  5. Select the WorkFlo web server you have already set up. Choose Master Mode. Click Next.
  6. There might be a delay while Visual InterDev connects to the specified web server.
  7. When prompted, enter a name for your new web application. For example, eProcess.

You can choose to connect to the existing web location and modify the out-of-the-box application directly; however, these instructions assume you are creating a new web application and will use only those parts of the eProcess Services components that are essential to make your application work with Image Services and Content Services libraries. Additionally, while you can choose to add the site to the root level of the web site, these procedures assume that you are developing your application in an isolated environment, which is separate from your production web site.

  1. Click Finish.
  2. When prompted, enter the user name and password for a user that belongs to the administrator group on the web server.

If your remote workstation and web server reside in different domains, you will have to supply the domain name as part of your user name. (For example, for a user in the Asgard domain, you would enter Asgard\<user name> in the User name field.)

  1. Once all of the new files and folder are added to your new solution, select and highlight all directories and files below the bolded solution site address (in the Project Explorer pane).
  2. From the Edit menu, select Delete. When prompted, select Apply to all items and click Yes.

All of the files and directories created for your new solutions should be deleted. You are now ready to add the eProcess Services components to your new solution.