Developing ASP.net with hosted server controls

Considering that discountASP.Net is not a testserver, I would expect that I should develop and test my component locally (localhost to be precise). However in order to test it, I need the same controls from the server on my local machine. E.g. the AspNetEmail control.

Is there a way to get a binary copy of these controls only for development purposes?

Else it's more like coding very carefully and testing it in production! I think nobody would benefit from that scenario.

Regards,

Marco

 

Let me add this idea for components: Why can't we design our products local and refernece the components remotely.

 

I have this same problem, I think the hosted controls are worthless without the ability to test them locally...and I for one spent many many hours getting the treeview to work, only to find out it only works 1 if you have inline code, codebehind wont work, 2 you cant run it at ALL locally once you have it setup this way...

There has to be a better way...this is totally unacceptable for a developer...its not worth having hosted components..you my as well just get rid of them!

 

not a "problem" perse..more like a security risk.

imagine exposing .dll's to the public..the risk would simply just be too great. I could not imagine any instances where i would allow remote access to installed components.

A way to use the hosting account as a test server would be to create a sub-directory, create a user and then remove anonymous access to that folder while assigning the newly created user to that folder. That way you CAN use DASP as a test environment.

either that or simply get the trials that are usually available from the component vendors.

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