Testing ASP.NET without IIS

[Niki Estner]

Hi there,

I'd like to test ASP.NET on my home machine (WinXP home without IIS).
Is it possible to use Visual Studio to create an ASP.net web-project with
Cassini or Apache?
Using Cassini, VStudio always tells me it can't create a project because I'm
not member of the "Visual Studio Developers" group. Now, I cannot assign
users to groups on Windows XP, neither does Cassini (as far as I know, at
least) have any kind of user-management.

Thank you

Niki

 

[-=Chris=-]

ASP and ASP.NET are IIS based technologies. While you *might* (never seen
it done) be able to route aspx requests through the ASP.NET ISAPI dll
through a custom handler, it wouldn't function completely, and you
definitely won't be able to debug. Debugging ASP.NET applications is a
service that is tightly integrated with IIS and the ASP.NET worker process.
I suspect that this may be the same reason you're unable to create the
project. VS.NET automatically tries to create IIS virtual directories upon
creating of a web app, and there is no such interface into Apache or
Cassini.

IIS IS available for XP, and I'd recommend installing it, rather than
putting up with the headache of trying to install another web server for
ASP.NET development.


I was minding my own business when Niki Estner blurted out:

 

[JRV]

Web Matrix is a free download from Microsoft. A visual Studio kind of
program that lets you develop ASP.net. It comes with a built in Personal
Server that can serve the projects you develop with it.
http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/default.aspx?tabIndex=4&tabId=46

 

[Niki Estner]

home edition is just exactly that just for home
That's fine, and I don't want to run a web server.
For home purposes, I don't need IIS' stability, performance, security or
scalability.
But I've bought Visual Studio.NET, and I'd like to have a look at the
built-in ASP.NET wizards/debuggers/etc.

Niki

 

[-=Chris=-]

ASP.NET is for writing web applications. Without IIS, you can't develop or
run web applications (unless you code everything in notepad or something
using only SDK tools).

I was minding my own business when Niki Estner blurted out:

 

[RAW]

there is no way
home edition is just exactly that just for home