Which to use? Visual Studio Development Server or Local IIS Web server?

Question

I've always wondered about this ... and thankfully, now have a good environment of experts to ask this question.

When creating a web application project which web server is the most expedient to use?

This is a duplicate question ... ASP.NET Development Server or Localhost IIS? ... my bad!

Answer 1

Read this: ASP.NET Development Server or Localhost IIS?

My question aimed more at general use than Web Apps specifically though..

Answer 2

As of ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012, the recommended server from the horse's mouth is IIS Express.

Answer 3

The VS development server is certainly less fuss. It makes developing multiple websites alot easier to manage. If you do not have a dedicated test environment running IIS I would certainly opt to run IIS locally though.