In this article, we are going to see how to deploy web applications using IIS Express
I am using a Windows 7 Home Basic in my Laptop . It does not have a IIS . I was really struggling to take the advantage of IIS in my system . But now using IIS Express I can easy take advantage of IIS . Lets see how simple it is to deploy Web applications using IIS Express . Download IIS Express from the following site as shown below : http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=1038 It is a 3 Mb download . Download and install it in your system . Once the Installation is completed . Browse to the path : C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS Express and click on the iisexpress application . IIS Express would be started as shown below : Open up Visual Studio . Open any Web Project which you would like to host . I have opened a Silverlight project here . Our aim is not to use the Visual Studio Deployment Server as I have already said. So right click on the Web project . Select Use IIS Express . The following message would appear . Say Yes . Visual Studio would prompt a message as shown below . Say Ok . You could see the IIS Express icon in the current running tasks list as shown below : Make the web project as start up. Run the project . Click on right click on the IIS Express and say show all applications . IIS Express Opens up . Now we can browse our application as shown below : Thanks .
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