Requirements:

• MS SQL Server add-on
• MSDE installed on local machine
• .NET Framework 1.0 or 1.1 installed on local machine

The IBuySpy Portal application is created by the ASP.net team at Microsoft to demonstrate how you can use ASP.NET along with the Microsoft .NET Framework to build intranet and Internet portal applications. The IBuySpy installation program is designed to install IBuySpy Portal on your local machine.  To install IBuySpy on DiscountASP.NET server, you will need to perform some customization.

Below is a step by step installation procedure to install IBuySpy portal on our server. Note the installation procedure is only a guideline. We do not support IBuySpy Portal if you run into an installation problem. You are welcome to use the community forum for peer support.

Installation Instructions

1. Download IBuySpy SDK software.  
2. Run installation program
3. Install in default location (c:\portalVB)
4. Skip configuration by closing the configuration screen, if you do not intend on using IBuySpy on your local machine.
5. Customize the web.config file for deployment on DiscountASP.NET server
   • Open c:\portalvb\portalvb\web.config
   • Replace this line <add key="ConnectionString" value="server=localhost;Trusted_Connection=true;database=portal" /> with <add key="ConnectionString" value="server=[SQL ServerName];database=Database_Name;user ID=Database_Username;password=Database_password" />
   • Save web.config file
6. Upload c:\portalvb\portalvb to your site using FTP
7. Create Portal Database Table on DiscountASP.NET SQL Server
   • Open c:\portalVB\portaldb.sql file with notepad
   • Remove all instruction before “-- drop any existing stuff”, line 1 through 81.
   • Replace ‘use [Portal]’ with ‘use [Database Name]’
   • Save file as portaldb-new.sql
   • Open command prompt and execute this statement: osql -S [SQL ServerName] -U [UserName] -P [password] -i c:\portalvb\portaldb-new.sql
8. Create PortalVB as an application
   • Log onto control panel
   • Go to Web Application Tool
   • Select the portal directory
   • Click Install Application
9. Open iBuySpy portal site at http://www.YourHostedDomainName.com/portalvb