Need IIS; XP Home Edition came with computer

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I need IIS on my machine in order to work with ASP.NET.
I have a brand new computer that came packaged with XP
Home Edition. I've got Visual Studio loaded (Standard).

Do I have any alternative other than to upgrade to XP
Professional edition. If not what is the least expensive
way to upgrade.

If I had known about this two days ago I would have
gotten XP professional in the first place. Sheesh
 
Tom said:
I need IIS on my machine in order to work with ASP.NET.
I have a brand new computer that came packaged with XP
Home Edition. I've got Visual Studio loaded (Standard).

Do I have any alternative other than to upgrade to XP
Professional edition. If not what is the least expensive
way to upgrade.

If I had known about this two days ago I would have
gotten XP professional in the first place. Sheesh
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You could have checked on the MS website... The product comparison shows IIS
is not included in Home...

All is not lost though, I understand the free Apache web server now has ASP
extensions so you could give that a try. www.apache.com iirc.
Alternatively, you could contact the PC manufacturer and see if the offer an
upgrade option to Pro...

Good Luck

Lorne
 
You'll need to purchase and install the "retail upgrade" version
of XP Professional in order to use IIS. IIS is an exclusive component
of XP Pro and cannot be installed in XP Home.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| I need IIS on my machine in order to work with ASP.NET.
| I have a brand new computer that came packaged with XP
| Home Edition. I've got Visual Studio loaded (Standard).
|
| Do I have any alternative other than to upgrade to XP
| Professional edition. If not what is the least expensive
| way to upgrade.
|
| If I had known about this two days ago I would have
| gotten XP professional in the first place. Sheesh
 
Tom said:
I need IIS on my machine in order to work with ASP.NET.
I have a brand new computer that came packaged with XP
Home Edition. I've got Visual Studio loaded (Standard).

Do I have any alternative other than to upgrade to XP
Professional edition. If not what is the least expensive
way to upgrade.

If I had known about this two days ago I would have
gotten XP professional in the first place. Sheesh
Click to expand...

I would first check with the store where you bought the computer. They
might be willing to give you a discount on XP-Pro given these circumstances
(brand-new computer purchased from them and a legitimate need for XP-Pro
instead of XP-Home Edition).

MaryL
 
Unfortunately, Visual [anything].net 2002 requires XP Pro, or
Win2K.

Visual .net 2003 _CAN_ work under XP Home, but with the following
limitations:

1) Limited functionality. Visual C++ .NET 2003 Standard does not support
creating ASP.NET Web applications or ASP.NET XML Web services when using
Windows XP Home Edition.
2) ASP.NET Web applications and XML Web services can only be hosted on
Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003.

take a peek at:

http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/productinfo/sysreqs/default.aspx

The other Visual tools are probably the same.

MSDN is the place to look for problems like you have. Good Luck.
 
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