Windows Server 2008

Hello.

Whats software would the "perfect" Windows Server 2008 have?
I'm going to use the server to develope C# and ASP.NET with Visual Studio.

Today the server have:
OS: Windows Server 2008
Visual studio 2008 Pro
SQL Deverloper 2008
IIS7

What more would i have to have the "perfect" server?

there isn't a perfect server... they are all for different jobs.

You seem to looking for a workstation rather than a server.

Why install Visual Studio on a Server? Visual Studio is a development tool?

rahsoftware said:

Why install Visual Studio on a Server? Visual Studio is a development tool?

Because for i have the server as a webserver. And that system i develope is a websystem, and i develop it on the server.

It's like a workstation and server in one, i think it's was to slow to open the project from the server and use it on the vista computer. Like i have to save the project on the server, because it's a websystem and i access it with IIS7.

But how sould you do? Where sould i save the project, so that is just access the server ip-number and i can surf to the webproject.

Hope you get what i'm trying to tell.

Frippe said:

rahsoftware said:

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Because for i have the server as a webserver. And that system i develope is a websystem, and i develop it on the server.

It's like a workstation and server in one, i think it's was to slow to open the project from the server and use it on the vista computer. Like i have to save the project on the server, because it's a websystem and i access it with IIS7.

But how sould you do? Where sould i save the project, so that is just access the server ip-number and i can surf to the webproject.

Hope you get what i'm trying to tell.

I have a WS2008 box on my LAN and configred Visual Studio 2008 to use that webserver for testing (rather than a local "limited" IIS5 or 6 or the dev server, neither of which accurately represent a production environment). I save the project to Source Control and a network share on the server and the IIS7 server is configured to serve the website from that share folder.

Works nicely.

W3bbo said:

Frippe said:

*snip*

I have a WS2008 box on my LAN and configred Visual Studio 2008 to use that webserver for testing (rather than a local "limited" IIS5 or 6 or the dev server, neither of which accurately represent a production environment). I save the project to Source Control and a network share on the server and the IIS7 server is configured to serve the website from that share folder.

Works nicely.

We do something similar only we run IIS7 locally on the dev machines, otherwise we have to checkin for arguably mundane things and debugging can be a pain.. like breakpoints being hit by other people..

We also run a top level and per dev TLD.. ie, .dev or .dev-steve, we do this by using the servers built in dns, registering to it as dev machines, and getting assigned a tld to the dev machines.

stevo_ said:

W3bbo said:

*snip*

We do something similar only we run IIS7 locally on the dev machines, otherwise we have to checkin for arguably mundane things and debugging can be a pain.. like breakpoints being hit by other people..

We also run a top level and per dev TLD.. ie, .dev or .dev-steve, we do this by using the servers built in dns, registering to it as dev machines, and getting assigned a tld to the dev machines.

So what do you think i sould do? I want to use the vs08 that i have on my vista computer, but i want to surf to websystem at the server? Sould i save the system at the server and open that over the net to my vs08 vista?

Or sould i config the IIS7 so that the webfolder is the project folder from my computer?

Frippe said:

stevo_ said:

*snip*

So what do you think i sould do? I want to use the vs08 that i have on my vista computer, but i want to surf to websystem at the server? Sould i save the system at the server and open that over the net to my vs08 vista?

Or sould i config the IIS7 so that the webfolder is the project folder from my computer?

what I do is:

on my laptop I create a web project using VS 2008 and the VS 2008 developers server.
edit test save....

then use "publish web..."  you can use that to upload the files to the live site via FTP or if you have a lan / vpn connection you can use a network share.

or you can zip up the files and copy them with RDP on the live server.

works good and then you do not have to leave source code setting on a server that someone might get access to.

Frippe said:

Whats software would the "perfect" Windows Server 2008 have?

Absolutely nothing but the absolute bare minimum required for whatever it is it is doing. Hence why Server Core rocks.