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mattruma
mattruma

Reputation: 16677

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

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!

Upvotes: 10

Views: 13386

Answers (4)

Edward Brey
Edward Brey

Reputation: 41638

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

Upvotes: 5

E.J. Brennan
E.J. Brennan

Reputation: 46839

I'd use both.

Use the VS built-in server for the first level testing on a day-to-day basis, and then a test IIS server for the next level up testing. For minute-by-minute changes to your code, you can't beat the VS built in server for convenience.

I used to use a dedicated test IIS server for ALL testing, and it slowed my down and didn't give enough benefit; it still worthwhile though to test your deployment on a full blown IIS server before going live.

Upvotes: 2

Jim Petkus
Jim Petkus

Reputation: 4508

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.

Upvotes: 2

Sulaiman
Sulaiman

Reputation: 506

I think Visual Studio Development server is build to test and run your application to see how they will work..

on the other hand IIS is the real deal ... it is the webserver that your application will run with..

Upvotes: 0

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