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Delphi 2005 Pro in WinXP Home

Hello,

I have a Delphi 2005 Professional. I'm planning to buy a new laptop for my development and to cut on costs, I'm considering having it installed with WinXP Home.

My question is, are there any strong reasons why I should opt for WinXP pro for development purposes? I'm thinking that for web development, I can use cassini instead.

Thanks!

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Jay
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Thanks for both your replies.

One clarification though before I close this question. I have purchased my D2005 more than a year now but have never fully explored web development-- although that might be a possibility. Alex, you mentioned that I won't be able to use the full abilities of Delphi for ASP.NET web applications when only using Cassini. Can you be more specific?

Again, thanks!
Oh, you were waiting for a second answer. :-)

You can read about Cassini at http://ultidev.com/products/Cassini/

Cassini is available in a .NET version so it will support ASP.NET but the limitations will mostly be in the way it handles all the available resources and more importantly. And of course the security will be a bit more simplified. For simple webapplications Cassini might be okay. For projects that are related to the IIS security and administration, Cassini will just not do the trick.

Also check out the Cassini forum at http://forums.asp.net/67/ShowForum.aspx