Installation of Visual Basic .NET

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I have an unusual situation in my facility. I need to install Visual Basic
..NET onto a user's system, however per corporate policy, we cannot install
the IIS services or FrontPage Extensions onto the computer. Because of this,
we're unable to install the software currently. What we need to be able to
do is install Visual Basic .NET without having the IIS services installed.
If anyone knows how this can be accomplished, I would greatly appreciate it.
 
Since VS.NET is supported on Windows XP Personal Edition, which does not
include IIS, then you don´t need IIS. You will get a warning about not been
able to develop Web apps, but you can skip it. About Frontpage Extensions, I
am not sure if they are required (even if you don´t plan to use Web apps) or
if you can skip then in the Prerequisites phase.

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Carlos J. Quintero

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Raymond Lang said:
I need to install Visual Basic .NET onto a user's system
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It is the case, in your facility, that

"user" = "Visual Studio Developer"

If /not/, why do you feel the need to install Visual Studio, a very
powerful (and expensive) piece of software, onto a "user"s machine?

If your "users" /are/ Developers, however, then I would suggest you
are doing them a great /disservice/ by preventing them from using IIS
on their local machines - how would(?) you expect them to develop
web-based (i.e. ASP.Net) applications?

Regards,
Phill W.
 
Phill. W said:
It is the case, in your facility, that

"user" = "Visual Studio Developer"
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Actually, in this case "user" does not equal "Visual Studio Developer". The
user is requiring only Visual Basic .NET for developing tools that are used
by others in the handling of large technical orders. There's no web
developing being done.
If /not/, why do you feel the need to install Visual Studio, a very
powerful (and expensive) piece of software, onto a "user"s machine?

If your "users" /are/ Developers, however, then I would suggest you
are doing them a great /disservice/ by preventing them from using IIS
on their local machines - how would(?) you expect them to develop
web-based (i.e. ASP.Net) applications?
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This might be true if company policy forbids having any software that would
allow the machine to work as a server. This would include IIS, as IIS would
make the machine a web server and not a workstation. Our networking folks
will identify the machine as having IIS loaded during routine system scans
and will remove it from the network until the software has been uninstalled.

Anyone who would develop ASP.Net applications usually are doing so on
systems that are not on the production network.

-Raymond Lang
 
Carlos J. Quintero said:
Since VS.NET is supported on Windows XP Personal Edition, which does not
include IIS, then you don´t need IIS. You will get a warning about not been
able to develop Web apps, but you can skip it. About Frontpage Extensions, I
am not sure if they are required (even if you don´t plan to use Web apps) or
if you can skip then in the Prerequisites phase.
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Unfortunately, the only version that is on any systems here is Windows XP
Professional SP2. So the software won't progress past the prerequisite
state, and since we can't install IIS per policy, we end up at a dead end for
the moment.

-Raymond Lang
 
Raymond said:
I have an unusual situation in my facility. I need to install Visual Basic
..NET onto a user's system, however per corporate policy, we cannot install
the IIS services or FrontPage Extensions onto the computer. Because of this,
we're unable to install the software currently. What we need to be able to
do is install Visual Basic .NET without having the IIS services installed.
If anyone knows how this can be accomplished, I would greatly appreciate it.
Click to expand...

Just install IIS, install VS and then remove IIS afterwards.
 
Raymond said:
I have an unusual situation in my facility. I need to install Visual Basic
..NET onto a user's system, however per corporate policy, we cannot install
the IIS services or FrontPage Extensions onto the computer. Because of this,
we're unable to install the software currently. What we need to be able to
do is install Visual Basic .NET without having the IIS services installed.
If anyone knows how this can be accomplished, I would greatly appreciate it.
Click to expand...

Just install IIS, install VS and then remove IIS afterwards.
 
I have Windows Professional, SP2 and installed VS.Net without IIS being
installed. I did get a warning that I couldn't use Web Forms and also I
believe a warning that I would have to uninstall something if I decided later
to install IIs
 
Raymond Lang said:
Actually, in this case "user" does not equal "Visual Studio Developer". .. . .
There's no web developing being done.
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Fair enough.
This might be true if company policy forbids having any software
that would allow the machine to work as a server. This would
include IIS, as IIS would make the machine a web server and not
a workstation.
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These days, if you follow Our Friends in Redmond's way of "thinking",
there's little difference any more. It /is/ relatively simple to configure
IIS to /refuse/ any incoming request that originates "off" the same,
physical machine.
Our networking folks will identify the machine as having IIS loaded
during routine system scans and will remove it from the network
until the software has been uninstalled.
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Presuambly, they view this as a potential security risk, but I would still
say their approach is a tad Draconian - who do you work for, again?
Just so's I can avoid them ... ;-)

Regards,
Phill W.
 
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