If you cannot or do not want to use IIS as your Web server,you can
still test your ASP.NET pages by using the ASP.NET Development Server.
The ASP.NET Development Server,which is included with Visual Web
Developer,is a Web server that runs locally on Windows operating
systems,including Windows XP Home Edition. It is specifically built
to serve,or run,ASP.NET Web pages under the local host scenario
(browsing from the same computer as the Web server). In other words,
the ASP.NET Development Server will serve pages to browser requests on
the local computer. It will not serve pages to another computer.
Additionally,it will not serve files that are outside of the
application scope. The ASP.NET Development Server provides an
efficient way to test pages locally before you publish the pages to a
production server running IIS.
The ASP.NET Development Server only
accepts authenticated requests on the local computer. This requires
that the server can support NTLM or Basic authentication.