Reasons why Vista is great for a Web Application Development Machine

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Reasons why Vista is great for a Web Application Development Machine

1. IIS 7 Allows Multiple Web Sites

On XP IIS was limited to one web site. To develop multiple web site one had to use virtual directories or develop solely with Cassini (VS Web server). The problem with both of the aforementioned strategies is that they create a significant difference between the development and production web servers. I prefer to develop with IIS, and Vista allows me to do that.

2. IIS 7 Plays Well with Asp.Net MVC

I love Asp.Net MVC but it really does not work well without IIS 7.

3. Vista works with my hardware

Most of my development work is done on my Dell Inspiron 6400, which had loads of driver issues that I never resolved when I was running XP Pro. Vista Business just works.

Print posted @ Thursday, August 07, 2008 6:28 PM

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# re: Reasons why Vista is great for a Web Application Development Machine

Dude, you should try Server 2008 if you can get your hands on it. All the good stuff of Vista with none of the performance suckage.

D 8/7/2008 6:52 PM | D'Arcy from Winnipeg

# re: Reasons why Vista is great for a Web Application Development Machine

Maybe I will try Server 2008. I definately want to start using it for my production environment. I used Server 2003 for my development machine for a while. It was ok but its hard to get drivers for some things.

I find the performance of vista to be on par with XP. You just need a lot of memory and to disable as many features as possible.

And I love the searchable start menu. To me that's a killer feature. 8/7/2008 7:04 PM | @D

# re: Reasons why Vista is great for a Web Application Development Machine

So if you think IIS7 is that great with MVC, can you explain to me the weird behavior of ResolveUrl that accounts for different behavior (read: urls that are missing a "/") from a Cassini environment to an IIS one? Especially considering ResolveUrl is coded in an entirely different way? 8/18/2008 11:53 AM | Justice~!

# re: Reasons why Vista is great for a Web Application Development Machine

Cassini and IIS behave differently in many ways, with webforms as well as MVC. I usually develop with IIS to avoid the headache. 10/11/2008 12:57 AM | Liam

Liam McLennan