IIS Express Visual Studio Integration - Changing site name

Question

I'm just starting to use Visual Studio 2010 SP1 with IIS Express. When Visual Studio launches IIS Express, it specifies the name of the "site" to launch IIS Express with. The name of the site seems to be derived from the name of my web project. Is it possible to have Visual Studio launch a site with some other name? For instance, if my web project's name is "WebProject1", when Visual Studio launches IIS Express, it will use the following command:

iisexpress.exe /site:WebProject1

I would like to force it to do this instead:

iisexpress.exe /site:MyMasterSite

Any ideas out there?

Answer 1

You will want to change this in the applicationhost.config file. This can be found in the user/documents/iisexpress/config folder. In the config file, under the system.applicationhost node you will find a sites node that should allow you to set the name in the site name node.

    <sites>
        <site name="WebSite1" id="1" serverAutoStart="true">
            <application path="/">
                <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="%IIS_SITES_HOME%\WebSite1" />
            </application>
            <bindings>
                <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation=":8080:localhost" />
            </bindings>
        </site>
        <siteDefaults>
            <logFile logFormat="W3C" directory="%IIS_USER_HOME%\Logs" />
            <traceFailedRequestsLogging directory="%IIS_USER_HOME%\TraceLogFiles" enabled="true" maxLogFileSizeKB="1024" />
        </siteDefaults>
        <applicationDefaults applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool" />
        <virtualDirectoryDefaults allowSubDirConfig="true" />
    </sites>