What the minimum edition of Windows 7 to work with Visual Studio/Asp.net?

Question

With Windows Vista/XP, I needed at minimum the Home Premium edition. In the Home Basic edition of Vista/XP I cannot work with ASP.Net...

• What the minimum edition of Windows 7 to work with Visual Studio?
• What the minimum edition of Windows 7 to work with ASP.Net?

Answer 1

The key ingredient is IIS, the web server used by ASP.Net. It turned out to be harder than I expected to find which edition of Windows 7 you need to use IIS. I wasn't able to find anything absolutely authoritative. The closest I came was this page, which seems to indicate you can install it on all Windows 7 editions. But that doesn't feel right to me so you might want to keep looking.

Answer 2

Any edition which supports Internet Information Services. Visual Studio is capable of operating on any Windows platform, but you need IIS in order to work on ASP.NET applications (Because they run on top of IIS).

According to this page, IIS is available in Windows 7 editions "Professional" and above.