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• 05-28-2006, 4:38 PM

  ronakcs Joined on 05-28-2006, 8:36 PM Posts 2	Do I need IIS for Windows XP home to use Studio 2005? Reply Contact Anyone?

• 05-28-2006, 10:45 PM

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  brashquido Joined on 05-21-2006, 8:31 PM Australia Posts 338	Re: Do I need IIS for Windows XP home to use Studio 2005? Reply Contact As IIS is not available for Windows XP home edition (officially anyway), and Windows XP home edition is a supported OS for Studio 2005 (express edition at least) I would say that IIS is not required. ---------------- Dominic Ryan Microsoft IIS MVP www.iis-aid.com My IIS articles My PHP articles My How-to guides

• 05-29-2006, 3:22 PM

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  ronakcs Joined on 05-28-2006, 8:36 PM Posts 2	Re: Do I need IIS for Windows XP home to use Studio 2005? Reply Contact Thanks for that Dominic. Does that mean that I should be able to write and run asp.net applications without using any other webservers?

• 05-29-2006, 4:27 PM

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  chrisad Joined on 03-05-2004, 8:01 PM Posts 289

  Re: Do I need IIS for Windows XP home to use Studio 2005? Reply Contact That is correct, it is supported on non-IIS skus.  The key understanding is that VS 2005 (& Visual Web Developer Express) ships with a built-in server called "Cassini" that allows a dynamically allocated port to be used such as HTTP://localhost:38593 and your application for testing. However, it should be noted that the Cassini server usage and behavior is not an apples to apples comparison to its behavior on IIS.  Thus, I do not recommended to take those results and not re-test on the correct platform that will be deployed in production (such as IIS.) Thanks, ~Chris Former Program Manager IIS Product Unit (Microsoft)