FrontPage Server Extensions are required to create and edit Visual InterDev Web projects. These extensions replace the FrontPage Extensions installed with FrontPage 98, as well as those installed by Internet Information Server 4.0, and they must be installed to work properly with Webs created by Visual InterDev 6.0. This setup may only be installed on x86 platforms.

The Microsoft Data Access Components are the key technologies that enable Universal Data Access. They include ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), Remote Data Service (RDS, formerly known as Advanced Data Connector or ADC), OLE DB, and Open Database Connectivity (ODBC).

This setup updates the components from the release that shipped with Internet Information Server 4.0 to be compatible to the features that ship with Visual Studio 6.0.

Visual Studio supports deployment of a solution to a range of servers. In order to deploy solutions with components that need to be installed and registered on the server to Windows NT machines running Internet Information Server 3.0 or 4.0, you must first install Internet Explorer 4.0 and Posting Acceptor 2.0 on the server machine. This is only required for components that have to be registered on the server, and is not required for components that are used on the server machine (from Active Server Pages, for example).

The purpose of this option is to allow you to debug your script and Java code even when it is running on a remote machine. The situation might come up if you deploy Java COM objects or if they write ASP applications that run on a remote Web server. Once this option is installed on a machine and the appropriate permissions are enabled, you can attach from their own desktop and debug the code while it is running remotely. The feature requires DCOM support on both machines.

Visual InterDev Server components are required for building web applications in Visual InterDev 6.0. Included are the latest script language engines and Data Environment runtime. You must install these components on the Internet Information Server computer and any computers to which a Visual InterDev web page is deployed. This setup may only be installed on x86 platforms.