ASP.Net alternatives for Development

[Denaes]

I own XP Home. I don't have anything budgeted to purchase XP Pro anytime soon.

 

Currently I'm only a desktop developer, but I need to move into ASP.Net soon. I have a web server with ASP.net (v1, v1.1 and v2) and SQL Server running under 2003 Server.

 

If I want to develop on my computer at home, how would this be possible to perform without upgrading to XP Pro?

 

Can you code, then upload and test online (that would be annoying)?

 

Any way to write and test on XP Home locally?

 

Any help would be great, thanks :)

[Denaes]

I found something about this "Cassini" that is a .Net implimented web server that can run on XP Home.

 

Honestly I'd rather have an app I can start and stop over IIS. I'm not running a server myself and I don't need all of those services constantly running.

 

Is this viable? I've heard it's not perfect, but I can upload ASP.Net apps to my web server and test them out as well.

[vcvc]

In conjunction with all of the other tools, I have been using MS WebMatrix to develop on XP Home on my notebook.

 

WebMatrix is a little buggy, but has a pretty decent local server for testing.

The price is right....FREE.

 

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