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SYSK 250: How To Start ASP.NET Development Server Without Visual Studio

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Since the introduction of the file system based web projects, the developers life has been greatly improved… That is unless you have to do a demo, or have other reasons why you don’t want to run Visual Studio in the background. So, your options are:

  1. Convert it to an HTTP based web site and use IIS
  2. Figure out the magic Visual Studio does to run it without IIS

As it turns out, option #2 is not that difficult. Visual Studio simply uses WebDev.WebServer.exe process as a host and listener of your requests (the executable can be found in C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 folder).

To start it, use the following command:

start /B WebDev.WebServer [/port:<port number>] /path:<physical path> [/vpath:<virtual path>]

For example:

start /B webdev.webserver.exe /port:4955 /path:"c:\Projects\YourWebSite" /vpath:/

That’s it…

Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 30, 2006
    Aaah, thanks. Really good tip. Great work. You the... girl!

  • Anonymous
    November 30, 2006
    Does this comment get posted? I'm tring to post some helpful programs/reg code that I've found that are relevant to WebDev.WebServer, but not sure if the comments come up. Maybe being Spam blocked. The first one is by Robert McLaws: http://weblogs.asp.net/rmclaws/archive/2005/10/25/428422.aspx The second one is by Daniel Fisher: http://www.lennybacon.com/CoolToolCassiniHerePowerToy.aspx Hope you and others find them helpful because I know I did!

  • Anonymous
    December 01, 2006
    And the good thing about this is once it's running, you can attach the VS debugger to it - useful if you have a large solution or (like me) one with a web deployment project in it, and the whole lot takes ages to run inside VS.

  • Anonymous
    December 25, 2006
    Actually we are using the new project or installation first, we are start the webserver, still i forget that. anybodies are help me regards sathis

  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2007
    Just what I was looking for!  Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    September 25, 2007
    Thats what i m looking for. thanks