I've had my head down for a couple of years, blithly developing web apps using VWD 2008 Express and PC apps using Visual Studio 2005.
Thanks to a computer crash, I am now trying to create a workable and sane development environment on a Windows 8 PC. My first priority is to port my earlier development projects to this platform.
For starters, I downloaded and installed VWD 2008. This turned out to be incompatible with IIS 8 that comes with Win 8 PCs. After reading the fine print, I see that neither VWD 2008 Express nor VWD 2010 Express are listed as being compatible with Windows
8. So I look again at the VWD and Vis Studio lineup, and I see:
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone
I am assuming that with VSE 2012 for Web I can continue working on projects that I have built using VWD 2008 Express on a Vista PC. Can someone confirm that this is true?
I am also assuming that with VSE 2012 for Windows Desktop I can can continue working on Windows Forms projects that I have built using Visual Studio 2005. Can someone confirm that this is true?
I have Visual Studio 2005 on a CD. Is this useable on a Windows 8 PC?
Thanks for any guidance you can offer.
Update 1 : I installed VSE 2012 for Web. It installed IIS Express (I had previously 'installed' IIS 8 by using "Turn Windows Features On and Off").
It appears that IIS 8 Sites are referenced by http://localhost (which seems to default to localhost:80) whereas IIS Express Sites are referenced by
http://localhost:8080 Also, it seems that to create a new ASP.Net Web Forms Site under IIS, you must Run VSE as Administrator. Question: How can you set "Run as Administrator"
permanently for an application? As far as I can tell you must do this each time you launch the program.
After using VSE 2012 creating a simple website under IIS, I found that you can't debug it and you can't run it. Very nice.
Question: Just why do I want IIS 8 on my PC?
After creating a simple website under IIS Express, I found that you
can debug it and you can run it.
Update 2:
Using "Turn Windows Features On and Off" I 'removed' IIS 8 from Windows. But it's still there. Still doesn't do anything for me except make 'localhost' unavailable to IIS Express (I have to use 'http://localhost:8080' to get to IIS Express sites).
Question: I assume that somewhere a default for 'localhost' is set to 'localhost:80'. Is there a way to change this to 'localhost:8080' ??
Meanwhile IIS Express seems to be contained in folders under My Documents (strange), and I can find no way to configure this software. IIS, which does nothing for me, remains available under Control Panel > Administrative Tools and is highly configurable
even though unusable.
I will continue to update this thread as I discover more about using this wonderful new OS. Maybe it will help someone somewhere.
I have Visual Studio 2005 on a CD. Is this useable on a Windows 8 PC?
Visual Studio 2005 will be out of
Microsoft Product Lifecycle, you could install it on Windows 7. But you'd better install later version on Windows 8, such as Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2012.
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I am also assuming that with VSE 2012 for Windows Desktop I can can continue working on Windows Forms projects that I have built using Visual Studio 2005.
Using "Turn Windows Features On and Off" I 'removed' IIS 8 from Windows. But it's still there. Still doesn't do anything for me except make 'localhost' unavailable to IIS Express
Please learn the function of turn Windows features on or off here.
Thanks for your support to our ASP.NET Forums, if you encounter any problem, please let me know.
hope it helps you.
Kind regards
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ASP.NET development on Windows 8 PCs
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I've had my head down for a couple of years, blithly developing web apps using VWD 2008 Express and PC apps using Visual Studio 2005.
Thanks to a computer crash, I am now trying to create a workable and sane development environment on a Windows 8 PC. My first priority is to port my earlier development projects to this platform.
For starters, I downloaded and installed VWD 2008. This turned out to be incompatible with IIS 8 that comes with Win 8 PCs. After reading the fine print, I see that neither VWD 2008 Express nor VWD 2010 Express are listed as being compatible with Windows 8. So I look again at the VWD and Vis Studio lineup, and I see:
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone
I am assuming that with VSE 2012 for Web I can continue working on projects that I have built using VWD 2008 Express on a Vista PC. Can someone confirm that this is true?
I am also assuming that with VSE 2012 for Windows Desktop I can can continue working on Windows Forms projects that I have built using Visual Studio 2005. Can someone confirm that this is true?
I have Visual Studio 2005 on a CD. Is this useable on a Windows 8 PC?
Thanks for any guidance you can offer.
Update 1 : I installed VSE 2012 for Web. It installed IIS Express (I had previously 'installed' IIS 8 by using "Turn Windows Features On and Off").
It appears that IIS 8 Sites are referenced by http://localhost (which seems to default to localhost:80) whereas IIS Express Sites are referenced by http://localhost:8080 Also, it seems that to create a new ASP.Net Web Forms Site under IIS, you must Run VSE as Administrator.
Question: How can you set "Run as Administrator" permanently for an application? As far as I can tell you must do this each time you launch the program.
After using VSE 2012 creating a simple website under IIS, I found that you can't debug it and you can't run it. Very nice.
Question: Just why do I want IIS 8 on my PC?
After creating a simple website under IIS Express, I found that you can debug it and you can run it.
Update 2:
Using "Turn Windows Features On and Off" I 'removed' IIS 8 from Windows. But it's still there. Still doesn't do anything for me except make 'localhost' unavailable to IIS Express (I have to use 'http://localhost:8080' to get to IIS Express sites).
Question: I assume that somewhere a default for 'localhost' is set to 'localhost:80'. Is there a way to change this to 'localhost:8080' ??
Meanwhile IIS Express seems to be contained in folders under My Documents (strange), and I can find no way to configure this software. IIS, which does nothing for me, remains available under Control Panel > Administrative Tools and is highly configurable even though unusable.
I will continue to update this thread as I discover more about using this wonderful new OS. Maybe it will help someone somewhere.
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Re: ASP.NET development on Windows 8 PCs
Nov 27, 2012 01:20 AM|LINK
Hi uick
Great post!
Platform compatibility and system requirements - http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/products/compatibility
Visual Studio 2005 will be out of Microsoft Product Lifecycle, you could install it on Windows 7. But you'd better install later version on Windows 8, such as Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2012.
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Re: ASP.NET development on Windows 8 PCs
Nov 27, 2012 01:32 AM|LINK
Microsoft Visual Studio Express - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio_Express
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Re: ASP.NET development on Windows 8 PCs
Nov 28, 2012 12:33 AM|LINK
Always start Visual Studio as an Administrator on Windows 8 -
http://superuser.com/questions/462912/always-start-visual-studio-as-an-administrator-on-windows-8
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Re: ASP.NET development on Windows 8 PCs
Nov 28, 2012 12:55 AM|LINK
Hi uick
Please learn the function of turn Windows features on or off here.
Thanks for your support to our ASP.NET Forums, if you encounter any problem, please let me know.
hope it helps you.
Kind regards
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