I just got Visual Studio.net Academic edition - sorry if this is a total
newbie question, but I've searched all over with no luck in finding the
answer to this...

I'm trying to work on an existing website done with .net. I have ftp
access. Using FTP, I copied all files from the site, including the project
and solution files. Trying to open the project ends up with an error message
about not being able to connect to the web server. It gives me the option to
try Frontpage access, but that doesn't work either.

Trying a different approach, I set up a new project on my own local server
and got everything working. I figured I'd get the web form and it's code
behind file working on my machine and then ftp them into the server. I got
the script working on my machine. I ftp'ed it to the server and it won't
work. It says it can't load the class that's created in the code behind file.

I looked at another script on the site, noted the namespace and changed my
code behind to use the proper namespace. I modified the web form and
referred to the proper namespace and class name. It's still giving me an
error about not being able to load type. The load type name it gives is the
namespace.classname.

It seems like I'm really close to getting this to work - any ideas?

Also, it seems like there has to be a much better approach to working on
this project - any recommendations?

Thanks,

Ed