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

Question

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 1

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.

Answer 2

I don't think IIS Express is available for Visual Studio 2010 yet.

Edit: Found it in Scott's post. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/06/28/introducing-iis-express.aspx

We’ll be releasing the first public beta of IIS Express shortly. With the beta you’ll be able to right-click on a file-system folder and have IIS Express launch a web-site based on that file-system location. We’ll also be releasing a patch for VS 2010 and Visual Web Developer 2010 Express later this year that will enable you to automatically launch and use IIS Express in place of VS’s built-in ASP.NET Developer Server.

Answer 3

http://www.intrepidstudios.com/blog/2010/7/11/debug-your-net-web-project-with-iis-express-t.aspx has instructions on using IIS Express with VS2010 if you don't feel like waiting for VS2010 SP1 to be released.

Answer 4

The link to the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (not beta any longer) is http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/confirmation.aspx?FamilyID=75568aa6-8107-475d-948a-ef22627e57a5.