Re: Is XP-Pro Really Needed?



Tom Giammo wrote:

> The Delphi 2006 requirements list XP-Pro as being required - and not
> the plain vanilla XP-Home. Does anyone know if it'll work with
> XP-Home? If not, is it just that certain features are not supported
> or that it won't run at all?

AFAIK the main reason is for ASP.NET support, as IIS is not included in
XP Home. You may still be able to do ASP.NET development on XP Home if
you use Cassini though, although I've never tried that myself (I have
XP Pro).

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