File System versus HTTP

[Kane Jeeves]

Doing ASP.NET sites using VS2005. I know the differences between File System and HTTP websites. And I've read several benefits of each, including on MSDN. But nothing I've read mentions what seems to me the obvious problem with going with HTTP...any workstation using WinXP onward will have IIS 5.1 at most. If our web servers are IIS7 then it seems that developing locally using IIS5.1 is asking for problems. But it DOES seem to work. The main reason MS gives for choosing File System over HTTP has to do with security on the local PC (which I'm guessing are usually used by a single developer, not shared, etc.), which is pretty uncompelling. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Kane

 

[Kane Jeeves]

No takers?

So how do most people do their asp.net local dev? HTTP or File system? Any advantages/disadvantages? Anyone using TFS as well?

TIA