VB .net and IIS?

[Sparda]

Is there a GOOD reason why vb .net needs IIS, I *cough* got a copy of
vb .net for college programing work, and it insists I install IIS,
even though this is totaly pointless, as I am going to be doing exacly
zero web releated programing/scripting (at least in vb .net) and IIS
would just slow my computer down. When I skip the instalation of IIS,
it asks me for "Visual Basic .NET Prerequisites disk", basicly, wtf is
that? and is it posible to install vb .net with out bloody IIS?

 

[Yves Leclerc]

..NET seems to be used in creating web pages and IIS is the personally "web
server" for XP Pro.

 

[S.Sengupta]

If at some point you wish to develop Web applications.

regards,
ssg MS-MVP