Re: BDS2006 - Why XP Pro requirement

Brion L. Webster

CBuilder Developer

Re: BDS2006 - Why XP Pro requirement

2006-01-13 02:53:44 AM
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John C wrote:

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Does anyone know why BDS2006 states a requirement for XP Pro?

I'd hoped to be able to use it on my laptop, which has XP Home.
For ASP.NET development - XP Home doesn't include IIS. It does, allow

ASP.NET development via Cassini, which BDS includes on the CD's.
Many, many people develop in BDS 2006 under XP Home. It's just not a
"supported" platform.
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-Brion
There's no such thing as 'one, true way;'
- Mercedes Lackey

John C

CBuilder Developer

2006-01-13 03:24:33 AM

Re:Re: BDS2006 - Why XP Pro requirement

Does anyone know why BDS2006 states a requirement for XP Pro?
I'd hoped to be able to use it on my laptop, which has XP Home.
Thanks
John C

Rudy Velthuis [TeamB]

CBuilder Developer

2006-01-13 04:41:32 AM

Re:Re: BDS2006 - Why XP Pro requirement

At 20:24:33, 12.01.2006, John C wrote:

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Does anyone know why BDS2006 states a requirement for XP Pro?

I'd hoped to be able to use it on my laptop, which has XP Home.
I guess it will work on Home (as D2005 does, on my laptop), but I didn't

try yet.
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Rudy Velthuis [TeamB] rvelthuis.de/
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OBones

CBuilder Developer

2006-01-13 04:14:04 PM

Re:Re: BDS2006 - Why XP Pro requirement

It works just fine here on XP Home

Andrue Cope [TeamB]

CBuilder Developer

2006-01-13 04:35:06 PM

Re:Re: BDS2006 - Why XP Pro requirement

John C wrote:

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Does anyone know why BDS2006 states a requirement for XP Pro?

I'd hoped to be able to use it on my laptop, which has XP Home.
It runs fine for me on XP Home at home and is running fine on Win2K at

work if that helps.
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Andrue Cope [TeamB]
[Bicester, Uk]
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John C

CBuilder Developer

2006-01-13 07:53:14 PM

Re:Re: BDS2006 - Why XP Pro requirement

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It runs fine for me on XP Home at home and is running fine on Win2K at
work if that helps.

Thanks to everyone for the info. I was concerned about some of the MS

products in the prereq install. I'm happy to hear that it works.
John C

Frode Nilsen

CBuilder Developer

2006-01-17 03:39:27 PM

Re:Re: BDS2006 - Why XP Pro requirement

Brion L. Webster wrote:

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John C wrote:

>Does anyone know why BDS2006 states a requirement for XP Pro?
>
>I'd hoped to be able to use it on my laptop, which has XP Home.

For ASP.NET development - XP Home doesn't include IIS. It does,
allow ASP.NET development via Cassini, which BDS includes on the CD's.

Many, many people develop in BDS 2006 under XP Home. It's just not a
"supported" platform.
While this is true, there is one major issue with it -

if you need support with eg. installation, you will only receive the
message 'Not a supported platform'.
Unless you have the power to get your Borland representative to act
upon this you are stuck ... a sad situation IMHO, especially since most
laptops have XP Home installed as default.
frode