I’m working on developing VS application and decided to download some trial winserver 2003 and VS devel applications.
I’m on XP home and have celeron 3.5g 256mb and 80g hdd.
I can not do a full load of winserver and I’m not equip to do DNS so I can’t do Active DIR, which is find I mainly want IIS to run tests.
My VS devel sw loads a test console to run my asp/c++ websrvices apps in but I really need to try live because I need to make sure the calls I make(I’m targeting win32 platform) will work on a live server hosted else with the min account config of win2003, sqlserv, asp, c++, c## libs(alot of the calls are in win32 which win2003 libs can handle).
I have apps that’ll create a wsi for a win32 client so that usrs of the webservice can offer quick info to their members desktop. They wouldn’t have to develop the desktop app portion just config theri xml files and have their users download the client wsi file generated via the webservice.
I work in hp home because I haven’t been ab;e to load the devel tools in win2003, I tried different ways but the docs say you’ll have to load a seperate copy of apps via the win2003 opsys. The config portin of the app changes based on opsys running and I can not run files that were installed via xp home, not even in a console or trying the run in this compatabilty mode via the shortcut setup options.
IIS isn’t a standalone like apache were I can download apache into my current opsys, get link to the inet(via IP(http://192.4.0.34 not http://www.domainname.com). This allows me to use a different pc at a different locale and load my site and see how someone from somewhere else would get around on it, plus play around before uploading to my host.
HOW TO GET THE IIS FEATURES without the overhead.
And w/o spending a cent.