While the first days I was developing DNN on my local machine, since a couple of days we moved to a development server. Our IT admin made me a virtual machine, so I connect from my desktop with a Remote Desktop Connection (have an IP, username and passwort, administrative rights).

Is it possible to still use my local machine and local VS (Visual Web Developer 2008 Express) with that? In particular:

• Use my local browser (on the virtual machine I can open DNN by http://localhost/DotNetNuke but when I try to connect on my local machine with http://IP-from-virtual-machine/DotNetNuke it simply says the site is under construction)
• Use my local VS IDE so that file changes are made directly on the server/virtual machine?

I just want to save the time I have to spend transferring files from my local machine to the virtual directory. Furthermore I am worried that some things might work on my local machine but then cause errors on the server.

I found that VS can connect to so called remote sites. Therefore they have to support Frontpage Server Extensions. But although I get to this site: http://www.visualwin.com/FPSE/extend-site-main.png it then hangs on the following loading-screen: http://www.visualwin.com/FPSE/extend-progress.png

I have done exactly this, but I get problems when trying to configure Frontpage Server Extensions in the vitrual over a UNC share.  Has anyone solved this issue?  I'm running Server 2003 in the VM and XP64 locally.    I have seen other forum posts mentioning creating 2 registry keys:  AllowUNC and NoMachineGroups... but this hasn't solved the problem.

Opening the DNN VS2008 solution fails on the DotNetNuke_Cambrian project.