IIS for home use?
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Being out of school, I'm looking for ways to keep my skills sharp and I need to find a way to practice my skills with ASP.NET at home. I know I can get Visual Web Developer for free from Microsoft, but I believe I'd need IIS to be able to write my own ASP.NET apps. Essentially, my question is, is there a free/trial copy of IIS that I can use for my home system?
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Being out of school, I'm looking for ways to keep my skills sharp and I need to find a way to practice my skills with ASP.NET at home. I know I can get Visual Web Developer for free from Microsoft, but I believe I'd need IIS to be able to write my own ASP.NET apps. Essentially, my question is, is there a free/trial copy of IIS that I can use for my home system?
If you have Windows XP you should be able to install IIS from Control Panel->Add Remove Program. On this screen you will see Add/Remove Windows Components on the left. Click it and Windows Components Wizard runs. You check Internet Information Services and then next till the wizard finishes. It requires Windows XP installation to be available. I hope this helps.
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Being out of school, I'm looking for ways to keep my skills sharp and I need to find a way to practice my skills with ASP.NET at home. I know I can get Visual Web Developer for free from Microsoft, but I believe I'd need IIS to be able to write my own ASP.NET apps. Essentially, my question is, is there a free/trial copy of IIS that I can use for my home system?
Visual studio express edition comes with it's own built in server. XP home edition has no ISS.
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Visual studio express edition comes with it's own built in server. XP home edition has no ISS.
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Sadly, yes I do have XP home and not pro, however, would it be possible to obtain IIS from an XP Pro disc? If not, then I guess that's a good reason to upgrade. I'll see what I can do.
BREdwards wrote:
would it be possible to obtain IIS from an XP Pro disc
No. Have your tried VS2005 ? It comes with an integrated development server, which may install on XP home. Try your luck.
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BREdwards wrote:
would it be possible to obtain IIS from an XP Pro disc
No. Have your tried VS2005 ? It comes with an integrated development server, which may install on XP home. Try your luck.
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I don't have the money for a license of VS 2005 unless I can find it for free someplace. Otherwise I can just save for it, I got 2003 on my machine but I don't believe it has an IDS but it's been awhile since I've tried doing ASP.NET on my machine. Oh well, thanks for your input, I appreciate it. :)
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I don't have the money for a license of VS 2005 unless I can find it for free someplace. Otherwise I can just save for it, I got 2003 on my machine but I don't believe it has an IDS but it's been awhile since I've tried doing ASP.NET on my machine. Oh well, thanks for your input, I appreciate it. :)
BREdwards wrote:
I don't have the money for a license of VS 2005 unless I can find it for free someplace.
You have Express editions. It's all free. Download the latest Visual Webdeveloper 2008 version and try. It also comes with integrated development server.
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