That must be it, didn’t even notice the word Tablet in there.
I have the full MSDN developer kit. I get new disks about once a week. There’s about 100 of them. I’ll have to look through them all again. It appears that I have all the current op systems, but maybe not.
For instance, the one on top of my stack is Windows 2000 pro.
I hope I have the XP. I would rather not go back to 2000 just for IIS.
One other problem with the upgrade will be the complication of SP2. If you’ve installed any Service Pack, that makes for a newer version of Windows. If the CD you’re trying to install from does not already include SP2, Windows will report that the already installed version is newer.
Dunno with XP but IIRC the older windows OS if you ran into this snag you could rename win.com to something else and the installer program would assume it was a new install.
Ok, you say you need to run IIS right? Is there a specific reason why you need IIS and not some other web server? Microsoft provides a free web server for XP. If it is for developing there is a web server built into the new version of Visual Studio.
Also, I have installed IIS on several XP home machines. A quick google search will provide you with plenty of walkthroughs.
Another also, keep in mind that IIS for XP is different then IIS for NT (2000, 2003, etc). It looks and feels the same however a couple of the key features (such as multiple websites) don’t work in XP.
And one last thing, once you get the right XP Pro disk upgrading is a breeze.
Just got back from a .NET class using Visual Studio. I did not know that VS included a web server.
In any case, I really need to bone up on this stuff, and I would like to go through all the tutorials and labs from the class at home. We use ISS at work, mostly on 2000 pro. I have XP at home, and will soon have it at work. I’d like to ‘practice’ on the same environment I will have at work.
I suspect that I don’t have the proper XP pro disk in my developement tools, since we are mostly 2000 at work. I do, however have a smatering of what looks like XP op disks. Not really sure what’s up. I need to go through the disks again.
I think I found the correct disk, but I don’t think I’m going to fight it tonight.
Windows XP Professional Checked/Debug Disc 1013.
I seem to recall that you can login to MSDN and download some of the files. Maybe XP Pro is included in your available downloads.
Your biggest annoyance will be not being able to run multiple web sites. Under Win 2K it was easy to test and develop because we can just create a new website on a different port for each new project. Under XP Pro I can have only one website under IIS. This causes a major headache developing and managing multiple websites!
Anyway, good luck with Visual Studio. I enjoy it alot and find it to be one of the best development tools out there.