Setting up a Development Environment

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From: Les P (LesP_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/10/05 

Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 21:09:04 -0800

I could use a little friendly advice!

Could a few of you good folks share with me a description of your
configuration.

Since '95 I have been a contractor developing applications using Borland
Delphi (Object Pascal) creating win32 C/S stuff.
Having recently completed amy last contract I decided to try my hand at
dotNet stuff and get some experience on the microsoft side of the fence.
(Kind of like taking a walking on the Wild Side)
I downloaded the trial version of Visual Studio 2003. So far I learned some
C# for win32.
I like C# very much (very similar to Object Pascal) and want to extend my
experience to ASP.NET
web applications.

I have some confusion about how to set up my environment so that I can
venture into ASP.NET aps.
I would like to keep it as simple as possible at first. Since I am doing
this at home and there is only one person working in the environent decreased
expense and simplicity are obvious objectives. But I would also like to hear
how development environments for groups of 10 to 20 developers are configured.

All of this may seem trivial to most of you but, then you all swim in these
waters every day. I'm just wading in and hoping that I don't drown before I
learn to swim. I don't have any experience with the MS development tools and
have a lot to learn and a long way to go in a short time.
Currently, I am using I am using XP Pro

--- The above is just background --- below are the questions ---

Do I have to create a network domain? Or can I use a workgroup?

If I must use a domain scenario, can XP be a domain controller? Or will I
need Virtual Server?

Should and can I use IIS 5.1 on the same machine.

Or should I just get an ISP to host my test apps. Would that ease some pain
and effort.

Will Visual Studio design web apps or do I need Front Page or Dream Weaver?

What other software can you think of that would be needed??
------------------------------
Thanks in advance,
Les

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