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IIS Express is the developer version of full IIS that doesn't require Administrator rights to run. See also the [iis] tag.

IIS Express is the developer version of full IIS, that doesn't require Administrator rights to run. It is designed as a replacement for the ASP.NET Development Server (aka Cassini) which ships with some releases of Visual Studio. IIS Express has several releases so far, and can be downloaded as separate installer or part of Visual Studio.

Official documentation is on IIS.net here and here.

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Visual Studio 2015 can't start IIS Express

When I am trying to run an ASP.Net Core project in Visual Studio 2015, a Microsoft Visual Studio dialog appears "The project doesn't know how to run the profile IIS Express". Does anyone know anything about this message, or how to fix it? I've…
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Debugging MVC application in VS2012 attempts to start IIS Express twice

UPDATE I'm certain this is a Visual Studio bug with no obvious solution. I've encountered a number of people who have the same exact issue. I have submitted a bug ticket with Microsoft…
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Running IIS Express without administrator rights

I've upgraded to iis express 7.5 with VS2010 SP1. Within the release notes it specified that express is able to run WITHOUT administrator permissions. When I try to run from the commandline (powershell cmd line) I receive the same "Access Denied"…
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How to set Allow Parent Paths in IIS Express Config

I'm assuming this is possible in the applicationhost.config file but I did not see a parent paths setting. How do you allow parent paths for a specific site running under IIS Express?
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Getting ASP.Net Core shutdown triggering ApplicationStopping event in IISExpress

I'm aware there is a previous question on this, also there is a GitHub issue: https://github.com/aspnet/Hosting/issues/846 which appears to be resolved as of Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IISIntegration 1.1. However despite having this version, this…
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How to leave iisexpress running after stopping debugging in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2?

Previously this could be done by unchecking "Enable Edit and Continue" under (Project) Properties | Web | Debuggers. This checkbox is not there in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2. The same checkbox including four sub-options can be found in Options |…
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IIS Express - HTTP Error 500.19 0x800700b7 on 'mimeMap' for 'fileExtension' set to '.svg'

I was adding the ability to serve SVG & WOFF files to my Azure hosted web application. I found the following instructions: https://blogs.iis.net/richma/archive/2014/01/07/adding-mime-types-to-your-windows-azure-web-site.aspx Which I have followed by…
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remove virtual directory in IIS Express created in error

I clicked on create virtual directory of the web tab of the properties menu. My application now isn't running (the published version is) It just hangs when any of my controllers code is executed I think I've messed up the IIS config Can anyone help…
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Unable to load Web Application project due to its configuration

I've a problem with loading Web Application project in VS2013. This project depends on IIS Express, but I wouldn't install IIS Express because I already installed IIS. What I can edit in .csproj file to load this project? I've tried to set to…
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Stop Visual Studio 2013 modifying the IISExpress applicationHost.config

I have a website project using Visual Studio 2013, and each time I open it, it keeps adding a new entry for the website project in applicationHost.config. I use IISExpress for my development, however I always create a custom entry to provide some…
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IIS Express not stopping when debug session ends

All of a sudden IIS Express no longer stops when I stop debugging a web site in Visual Studio 2017. I'm not sure when this behaviour started, but I have the following setup: Visual Studio 15.5.2 (Has been repaired) IIS Express 10.0 x64…
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GZip response on IIS Express

I want to compress responses coming from my IIS Express driven web application. We're using IIS Express as local development webserver and IIS on staging and on our build machines. I have found many guides on enabling gzipped responses on IIS but…
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How can I stop IISExpress from dumping every detail of every request into the Visual Studio Output window?

My VS 2013 output window is full of this: iisexpress.exe Information: 0 : Request, Method=GET, Url=http://localhost:51741/api/Clients/?$filter=UniqueName eq '6269', Message='http://localhost:51741/api/Clients/?$filter=UniqueName eq…
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How can I create new applicationhost.config file in IIS Express Server?

I had to delete my applicationhost.config, because VS 1012 didn't deal with it. How can I create it? thank you.
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Browse Web Site With IP Address Rather than localhost

I am using VS2012 with IIS Express and can not seem to browse my web sites using my IP Address. Is there some way to do that? It used to work fine with earlier versions of VS. For example, this address works fine: http://localhost:64651/ But, this…
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