VS.Net OS requirement Q

[John Dann]

Looking to get a copy of VS.Net Pro, but slightly confused about
operating system requirements for installation. Some documentation
suggests for example that I can't (maybe shouldn't) install on Win XP
Home, which seems a little odd. Is this an IIS issue? Maybe I can
install successfully on XP Home but can't do any database-related
development? Or is it a more total prohibition than that?

My projects, at least initially, will be only Win forms but I would
liked to have done some simple database work. But I don't really want
to have to go out and but a copy of XP Pro as well.

Anyone able to advise please?

JGD

[Simon Verona]

I believe vs.net itself runs fine, but you will be unable to develop and
test asp.net pages due to the lack of IIS web server on XP Home.

Regards
Simon
"John Dann" <ne**@prodata.co.uk> wrote in message
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Looking to get a copy of VS.Net Pro, but slightly confused about
operating system requirements for installation. Some documentation
suggests for example that I can't (maybe shouldn't) install on Win XP
Home, which seems a little odd. Is this an IIS issue? Maybe I can
install successfully on XP Home but can't do any database-related
development? Or is it a more total prohibition than that?

My projects, at least initially, will be only Win forms but I would
liked to have done some simple database work. But I don't really want
to have to go out and but a copy of XP Pro as well.

Anyone able to advise please?

JGD

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* John Dann <ne**@prodata.co.uk> scripsit:

Looking to get a copy of VS.Net Pro, but slightly confused about
operating system requirements for installation. Some documentation
suggests for example that I can't (maybe shouldn't) install on Win XP
Home, which seems a little odd. Is this an IIS issue? Maybe I can
install successfully on XP Home but can't do any database-related
development? Or is it a more total prohibition than that?
Windows XP Home is not a developer operating system. I wouldn't use it
for development. IIS won't run on Windows XP Home and there are some
other issues too.
My projects, at least initially, will be only Win forms but I would
liked to have done some simple database work. But I don't really want
to have to go out and but a copy of XP Pro as well.

Databases will run on Windows XP Home, but make sure you read this
document:

<http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/productinfo/sysreqs/default.aspx>

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[John Dann]

On 01 Feb 2004 13:19:44 +0100, hi***************@gmx.at (Herfried K.
Wagner [MVP]) wrote:

Windows XP Home is not a developer operating system. I wouldn't use it
for development. IIS won't run on Windows XP Home and there are some
other issues too.

I do appreciate the reply (and the previous one), but not completely
sure what it means. The footnote on the MS link you kindly provided
says:

'¹ Limited functionality. Visual Studio .NET 2003 does not support
creating ASP.NET Web applications or ASP.NET XML Web services when
using Windows XP Home Edition.'

At face value I read this to mean that as long as I don't want - for
the time being at least - to develop asp.net applications then my
development environment won't be compromised. Or is there some further
sense in which XP Home is 'not a developer OS'.

Thanks
JGD

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,
The cassini web server works on xp home.
http://www.asp.net/Default.aspx?tabindex=7&tabid=41

Ken
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"Simon Verona" <ne**@aphroditeuk.com> wrote in message
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I believe vs.net itself runs fine, but you will be unable to develop and
test asp.net pages due to the lack of IIS web server on XP Home.

Regards
Simon
"John Dann" <ne**@prodata.co.uk> wrote in message
news:he********************************@4ax.com...

Looking to get a copy of VS.Net Pro, but slightly confused about
operating system requirements for installation. Some documentation
suggests for example that I can't (maybe shouldn't) install on Win XP
Home, which seems a little odd. Is this an IIS issue? Maybe I can
install successfully on XP Home but can't do any database-related
development? Or is it a more total prohibition than that?

My projects, at least initially, will be only Win forms but I would
liked to have done some simple database work. But I don't really want
to have to go out and but a copy of XP Pro as well.

Anyone able to advise please?

JGD