m.o
December 24th 03, 02:01 PM
reason #4 is wrong you can up grade to xp pro.... or make
it a dual boot os.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hello Everybody;
>
>You don't know how very angry I am at this moment! A
month
>ago I bought a nice new computer with the default Windows
>XP home edition (yes, I know, I should have paid maybe
>$100 more and got the professional edition instead, but
>unfortunatly one never thinks about those things at the
>right time). Things were pretty good until about a week
>ago when I bought Visual Studio 6.0 (imagine how even
more
>frustrated I would have been had I shelled out a grand
for
>visual Studio Net). Now I am trying to teach myself
Active
>Server Pages, Com programing, scripting, and all that
good
>stuff and here is what set my blood to boiling:
>
>1 - XP home does not include the IIS web server like
>every other post-98 version of windows
>2 - OK, fine, I'll just use the personal web server
>which supposedly 'ships with' visual studio instead, even
>though I won't be able to access databases, among other
>things
>3 - The personal web server 'ships with' the windows nt
>service pack 4.0 CD from visual studio, which simply
>refuses to install on my XP home system because of a
>missing or out-dated .dll
>4 - OK fine, I'll just spend the money and upgrade to
XP
>professional. but NOOOOOOO, one cannot upgrade from XP
>home to XP professional.
>5 - OK then, I'll just buy a dog-gone web server. But
>every web server software package I come across on the
>internet specifically is for XP PROFESSIONAL, not home.
>
>It seems like XP home is the only operating system known
>to man which will not support any kind of a web server at
>all (well, I was thinking of trying out an Apache, but
>their servers don't work with ASP's or databases, and
>those are the things I am trying to learn).
>
>A couple of questions?
>
>Can ANY kind of a web server run on XP home?
>
>Is there any kind of IIS type server software available
>for purchase which I can install and use in conjunction
>with my Visual InterDev and other Visual Studio
>applications?
>
>Thank you in advance for your help.
>
>Very Upset John
>
>.
>
it a dual boot os.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hello Everybody;
>
>You don't know how very angry I am at this moment! A
month
>ago I bought a nice new computer with the default Windows
>XP home edition (yes, I know, I should have paid maybe
>$100 more and got the professional edition instead, but
>unfortunatly one never thinks about those things at the
>right time). Things were pretty good until about a week
>ago when I bought Visual Studio 6.0 (imagine how even
more
>frustrated I would have been had I shelled out a grand
for
>visual Studio Net). Now I am trying to teach myself
Active
>Server Pages, Com programing, scripting, and all that
good
>stuff and here is what set my blood to boiling:
>
>1 - XP home does not include the IIS web server like
>every other post-98 version of windows
>2 - OK, fine, I'll just use the personal web server
>which supposedly 'ships with' visual studio instead, even
>though I won't be able to access databases, among other
>things
>3 - The personal web server 'ships with' the windows nt
>service pack 4.0 CD from visual studio, which simply
>refuses to install on my XP home system because of a
>missing or out-dated .dll
>4 - OK fine, I'll just spend the money and upgrade to
XP
>professional. but NOOOOOOO, one cannot upgrade from XP
>home to XP professional.
>5 - OK then, I'll just buy a dog-gone web server. But
>every web server software package I come across on the
>internet specifically is for XP PROFESSIONAL, not home.
>
>It seems like XP home is the only operating system known
>to man which will not support any kind of a web server at
>all (well, I was thinking of trying out an Apache, but
>their servers don't work with ASP's or databases, and
>those are the things I am trying to learn).
>
>A couple of questions?
>
>Can ANY kind of a web server run on XP home?
>
>Is there any kind of IIS type server software available
>for purchase which I can install and use in conjunction
>with my Visual InterDev and other Visual Studio
>applications?
>
>Thank you in advance for your help.
>
>Very Upset John
>
>.
>