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Using Visual Studio Dot Net, Subversion & Windows XP To Set Up Dot Net Website Development Environment
Eliz
May 21, 2013
3 Min Read
With this article, I intend to enlighten asp dot net web developers with details about setting up their own isolated development environment for developing websites using ASP.NET, Subversion, and Windows XP. Microsoft considers developing dot net web applications in an isolated development environment. If you are already having your environment setup without using source control, then you should read this article to get various steps on how to add this functionality to your set up. Further at the end of each section there is a section called Errors section that contains common errors that might occur during the tasks specified.
There are many advantages if you setup the development environment properly. When you get detailed knowledge about using source control to set up development environment you will realize how easy the process is and wonder why you never used it previously.
Following are the benefits of using source control
Helps monitor the quality of code
Supports easier workflow automation to bring down errors moving code among development, staging, and production
Makes external access to projects for contractors secure and efficient
Helps keep a check on the number of people dedicated to the project
Enables robust file and project disaster recovery
Setting up IIS 5.1 on Windows XP
Visit Control Panel and Add or Remove Programs section to check if IIS is already installed on your system
Then click on Add/Remove Windows Components option present on the left side bar
You will find a Windows Component Wizard. Scroll down to check the box adjacent to Internet Information Server (IIS). On click Next, at the bottom of the wizard, IIS will get installed
When you click on Internet Information Server (IIS) option you will get the Details button. Then check the box adjacent to FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions. You will need this in future whenever you are using Visual Studio with your local instance of IIS.
Click OK and Next. IIS will get installed. At this time, you should insert your Windows XP CD into the system.
If IIS is working fine then go to http://localhost. You will get a page that welcomes you to Microsoft Windows XP Professional plus a different browser window with IIS documentation.
After confirming that IIS is running well, for some time you should change the port that IIS runs on. This lets you install Apache easily.
Go t Administrative tools in Control Panel and select Internet Information Services. This opens up the IIS management console.
A tree like structure appears on the left side. When you expand the tree, you will see a folder named Web Sites. On expanding the folder another folder named Default Web Site appears. When you right click on it you can select properties, the config page with title Default Web Site properties appears and the tab selected by default will be Web Site. Change the TCP port to 81 and click OK.
Visit http://localhost:81 to check if you followed the process correctly.
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