Do I really need to install IIS 5 on my machine

[davidrobin]

I was about to install VS.NET on a WINXP machine when the
Web Projects Requiregents appeared as follows.

If you want to create Web projects on this machine, you must first install additional components. To create Web projects, both Internet Information Services (IIS) and FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) must be installed and configured. You can, however, create Web projects on remote machines that have these components installed and configured.

There seems to be a contradiction here. Our production server where we publish the web site has IIS 5 on. To develop web apps with asp.net do I need to install IIS 5 on my WINXP prof machine?

[Fishcake]

Nope

You can, however, create Web projects on remote machines that have these components installed and configured

As long as when you create the project in VS.net you create it on your production server, but if you want to test locally before uploading to the server then i think you will need to have IIS installed on your machine.

[davidrobin]

I am actually doing development on MY machine (local copy).
I connect to the server (currently with Visual Interdev) where the master copy is.

I then upload (copy) to the web application to the production server.

So I DO need IIS on my machine.

Thanks..

[<ABX]

if you dont mind connecting to server to test every little thing then no

otherwise yes