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Dan Stevens
Dan Stevens

Reputation: 6830

Prevent duplicate site elements being added to applicationHost.config when opening a ASP .Net Web App project

I have an ASP .NET Web Application project Visual Studio 2013, which I use for testing purposes only. I'm using pretty much the default project setup:

I want to be able to send requests and recieve responses from another machine on my LAN. I was able to figure out that that this can be enabled by modified %USERPROFILE%\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config file, changing the value of the //configuration/system.applicationHost/sites/site/bindings/binding[@bindingInformation] attribute from *:1728:localhost to *:1728:*.

This works, but there's another annoying problem: Whenever I reopen the project in Visual Studio, a duplicate site element is created in the applicationHost.config file with the old value of *:1728:localhost for the bindingInformation attribute, meaning I have to repeat the above process. Is there a way to get IIS Express/Visual Studio to use the existing, modified site configuration element rather than create a new one? Failing that, is there a way to change the default value for the bindingInformation attribute to *:1728:localhost instead of *:1728:localhost?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 931

Answers (2)

Artur
Artur

Reputation: 138

Do not change the bindingInformation in the already created bindings. Just add a new binding element. Like so:

<site name="SitenameHere" id="11">
    <application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
        <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\Users\**usernameHere**\PathToProjectHere" />
    </application>
    <bindings>
        <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:1728:localhost" />
        <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:1728:*" />
    </bindings>
</site>

Upvotes: 0

Roman Tekeev
Roman Tekeev

Reputation: 41

Do not remove localhost from :1728:localhost. Just duplicate :1728:localhost; :1728:192.168.1.1

Upvotes: 4

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