Developing in Visual Studio 2010 with the new IIS Express web server?

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John K picture John K · Jul 28, 2010 · Viewed 24.5k times · Source

Although this question isn't directly about code it's related to programming and seems better put here than, say, serverfault or superuser.

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I'm a developer with Visual Studio 2010. Microsoft's newest web server offering for developers is IIS Express. ScottGu indicated this combination is workable:

IIS Express will work with VS 2010 and Visual Web Developer 2010 Express, will run on Windows XP and higher systems,

The only option I've seen so far, is to download WebMatrix which contains and uses IIS Express, but I cannot get it hooked into VS 2010, or to download IIS Express separately.

Any ideas?

Answer

John K picture John K · Jan 19, 2011

Current of July 11, 2011

Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 includes the option to use IIS Express from inside VS2010. Blog post.

Or use the Web Platform Installer.

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