IIS vs SQL Server for VS .NET

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Can SQL Server be used in place of IIS on a machine
running XP Home? I want to do ASP development with VS,
but without IIS I don't seem to be able to. Are there
any other alternatives that still allow me to use VS as
the development tool?
 
SQL Server is a database server. IIS is an internet server. Two
fundamentally different things. I don't know what "VS" is.

You can find more info about SQL and IIS servers on the Microsoft web site.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms
 
IIS is used in conjunction with either SQL Server or MSDE (Desktop Version
of SQL Server) in VS.NET to do ASP development.
 
So is there an internet server that can be used with
Visual Studio in place of IIS? It's my understanding
that IIS cannot be installed on XP Home at all, but I
still want a server that will interact with Visual Studio
because VS requires one in order to do ASP developing.
 
The only server that'll work on XP Home, I believe is Tomcat/Apache, but
it is not ASP capable. So if you want to use ASP development with XP and
VS.Net you are going to have to upgrade to XP Pro.
I believe the VS.Net requirements are stated on the box and web site
that XP Pro is required for ASP development.
 
Microsoft has a free ASP.Net development environ at http://www.asp.net/webmatrix that includes a PWS that will run on XP Home. I also understand that the PWS is compatible with Visual Studio but I have not personally used it. I have used the free development environment from the Web Matrix and PWS and both work very well.
 
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