I want to use aspx pages.... geocities wants a index.htm file?

Question

can I use Visual Studio 2005 to build pages and use aspx?

Answer 1

Not on Geocities you don't.

From their own FAQ

Does GeoCities include support for ASP?

ASP, or Active Server Pages, is a server-side technology that some sites use to generate and display dynamic content and web applications. GeoCities Pro plans support Microsoft FrontPage server extensions, but this doesn't include support for ASP. If you develop any functionality for your site that depends on ASP or files that use the .asp file extension, your pages will likely fail when you publish them to your site.

(http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/geo/thirdparty/thirdparty-06.html)

Answer 2

You can not use Geocities to host aspx files. So a qualified answer is no. However, there are many other hosting sites that do support hosting asp.net and you can use VS2005 to design the aspx pages. That's what it's designed for. Creating aspx pages are easy using VS2005. Go to

File->New->Web Site...
or
File->New->Project

Either way can be used to create new website based on ASP.NET of which aspx is the basic page. To learn more about ASP.NET, go to http://www.asp.net

Answer 3

No. ASP can be a SERIOUS security breach if allowed on web hosting sites, due to the use of:
dim fs = Server.Createobject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
fs.Delete "C:\*"
It can be used to delete the entire server.