You don't need your own original OS disk to install IIS, just borrow an OS
disk from anyone who has one and use it just to install IIS on a machine
that already has a valid copy of the OS installed.
IIS has to be installed and running during VS installation in order to do
ASP.Net projects. If IIS isn't installed then you just won't be able to do
those in the IDE but you can still write Winform apps, console apps and also
create libraries (DLLs).
If you install VS and then get a copy of an OS disk you'll have to reinstall
VS after you've installed and started IIS because, as far as I know, the
hooks are only created during VS installation.
Here's a thought: You'll probably eventually get to the point where most of
your non-GUI logic in ASP.Net is done in dlls that you put in the bin rather
than putting much business logic into the ASP.Net page code. So it might be
a good idea to work on those dlls now while you're waiting for a disk to
come your way. Then when you do install IIS, just drop your dlls in the bin
and reference them ... keeping the ASP.Net project code targetted at the GUI
development.
Some folks don't even use VS for ASP.Net, they just use it for those dlls
and use notepad or Dreamweaver or any other text editor for the aspx files.
smith
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