You can install Drupal on Windows. Windows 2008 + IIS7 is the best version to do that with. As to leveraging .NET... not sure. You can access flash, etc so I would take a look at the (I think) services module to see if that has any convenient ways to hook into your back end application.
You can install Drupal on Windows 2008 Server IIS7 and exchange information with all your legacy .Net apps. Drupal uses PhP, not ASP.Net, so you would run it as its own application along side of any of your .Net applications. Microsoft has a PhP driver for MS SQL Server you can use to query these dbs using the Drupal API, and you can also exchange data with legacy .Net apps using XML-RPC calls - Drupal has a well-developed XML-RPC API and a native server integrated with Drupal 6+.
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It depends on what you mean,
It depends on what you mean, but I am not sure the question makes much sense.
Drupal is a CMS that is used to produce web pages so what using it "in" some other application would mean is unclear.
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You can install Drupal on Windows. Windows 2008 + IIS7 is the best version to do that with. As to leveraging .NET... not sure. You can access flash, etc so I would take a look at the (I think) services module to see if that has any convenient ways to hook into your back end application.
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You can install Drupal on Windows 2008 Server IIS7 and exchange information with all your legacy .Net apps. Drupal uses PhP, not ASP.Net, so you would run it as its own application along side of any of your .Net applications. Microsoft has a PhP driver for MS SQL Server you can use to query these dbs using the Drupal API, and you can also exchange data with legacy .Net apps using XML-RPC calls - Drupal has a well-developed XML-RPC API and a native server integrated with Drupal 6+.