From: Randall Parker 

Yes, I'm aware of it. But can VS 2003 use that? Or is it a replacement for both VS
2003 and IIS?

Some people told me to use Cassini. I installed Cassini and fired it up. I can access
Cassini from a web browser using http://127.0.0.1 and that works. But
here's a message I posted on microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet and
am still confused about:


Running XP Home which does not come with IIS. In response to advice received on this
forum I installed the Cassini web server to serve in place of IIS. See here
for Cassini:
   http://www.asp.net/Projects/Cassini/Download/Default.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=1

Trying to create an asp.net project in VS 2003. When I try to create the problem I
get this error:

"The default Web access mode for this project is set to file share,
but the project
folder at 'http://localhost/WebApplication1' cannot be opened with the path
'\\MYMACHINE\wwwroot$\WebApplication1'. The error returned was:

    Unable to create Web project 'WebApplication1'. The UNC share
'\\MYMACHINE\wwwroot$\WebApplication1' does not exist or you do not have
access.

It asks me to retry with a different file share path. Well, can I then specific a
real file path rather than a URL path? Why did it fail?

When I started Cassini I gave it:
    d:\mainpage
  as the directory to start in. Should I create a subdir called WebApplication1
in
that mainpage directory?

It also gives me another option: "Try to open the project with
FrontPage Server Extensions". Should I do that instead?

Paul Ranson wrote:
> This may help
>
> http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/
>
> Paul
>
> "Randall Parker"
>

> wrote in message news:43548628$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>I'm trying to figure out some way to develop aspx pages on my laptop that
>>runs XP Home. XP Home does not come with IIS. Is there some other way to
>>run ASPX files on XP Home?
>
>
>

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