Hi I want to build a shopping cart application in ASP using VB script, and I am using Windows XP at the moment. I found out that in order to make ASP pages u need IIS, or PWS. Does MS XP Home edition come with the features, or do i need to be using Windows NT ? I am a beginner at this so any help would be appreciated.
stupid home edition… i want asp
asp (VBScript) is not ASP.net, just in case that wasn’t mentioned. He was asking about ASP3 (VBScript), in which case you would need to run IIS. There is a way to install IIS on WinXP home, but it takes a bit of work and registry hacking (search google)
If you want to develop using Visual Basic.net for APS.net apps, the best tool is Web Matrix, which is free (built by the creators of ASP.net) and also comes with a built in IIS server for testing - installs with Web Matrix.
It needs the .net framework of course, so unless that cannot install onto xp home, then I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work…
Why would u want to use access anyway ???
ASP XP does it even mather ??? [size=1]sssssssttttt[/size]
you need apache… and chilisoft_asp… that’s all 
dude access is not that bad. i mean personally i think mySQL is better, but let’s not totally bash access 
Access isn’t THAT bad. I use it once in a while, especially when other empolyees are required to enter large amounts of data in to a non critical database, i use access rather than sql server. It lets them think they have more ‘power’ rather than giving them a form page or making a dts package.
