Run ASP.NET in Windows XP Home with Cassini Sample Web Server
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If you need to learn ASP.NET programming, then the first thing you need to install in your Windows XP Home PC is Cassini Sample Web Server. This article explains what you should have in place before you install the server, and explains how to download and configure it.
ASP.NET is owned by Microsoft and is an entirely new technology as compared with classic ASP. This technology allows you to write ASP.net server side commands hosted in an IIS-compatible server like Cassini Sample Web Server.
The very good thing about this sample web server is that it is FREE (open source). This is like XAMPP, when we are running local Apache-MySQL-PHP in a Windows-based operating system.
If you have a Windows XP Home computer, you would not be able to install IIS (Internet Information Services) properly since this is only available in Windows XP Professional OS.
It is not recommended that you make drastic tweaks to your Windows XP Home computer just to install and run IIS, because this can be a complicated procedure. Mistakes could ruin the existing Windows XP home configuration and make it unusable.
Instead, the safest way to run ASP.NET is to install Cassini Web Server. This tutorial is all about how to install, configure and prepare your Cassini Sample Web Server in your Windows XP Home computer to create dynamic websites written in ASP.NET. The information contained in this article is very basic and primarily intended for first time learners of ASP.Net programming.
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