I'm kind of new in ASP.NET and C# so it may sound a stupid question. I installed MAMP in order to have a testing server. My project is in the htdocs directory.

I'm working with mac and as I said I'm trying to learn C# and ASP.NET. When I try to preview my website in dreamweaver, I see the source code instead of the website (when not in "live view" I see the example button I put in the code).

When I use mono-develop, the same project works good on the browser. I think the problem is with MAMP or apache but I'm not sure...

• c#
• asp.net
• mono
• mamp

MAMP is specifically for Apache, MySQL and PHP installations. ASP and C# are Microsoft languages and the MAMP server will not recognize them. You need Windows to have a c# server. I tried to do what you are doing: get Windows 7, it is easier.

Luckily:

1. You can run Windows on your Mac
2. Microsoft gives out free developer tools including Visual Studio which will help you get started.

Alternatively you can get a .NET web host for less than $7 per month and try all of your creations out on their server. It would still be a challenge for a beginner to code on a Mac and pull it off though.