VS.Net OS requirement Q

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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
 
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 said:
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?
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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.
Click to expand...

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

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

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
 
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