IIS Express is a lightweight version of IIS and it doesn’t ship with the the admin UI tool like IIS Manager. You could install WebMatrix, but it only allows you to configure few settings (binding, default documents, SSL). The options you have today: you can use appcmd.exe command line tool that can be found in … Read more
For me the solution was a much simpler one. In my Solution Explorer in Visual Studio, I right click on the web project, chose properties and then navigated to the “web” tab. From there I changed the Project URL to another port number. For example, if it was http://localhost:1052 – I changed it to http://localhost:4356. … Read more
It looks like this should be possible. In your IIS Express site’s applicationhost.config file, there is a <processModel/> element defined in <applicationPoolDefaults> under <applicationPools> The <processModel> element has attributes for userName and password. From MSDN: Specifies that ASP.NET will run the worker process with a Windows identity that is different from the Windows identity for … Read more
For Visual Studio 2013 Visual Studio 2015 Visual Studio 2017 Visual Studio 2019: Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> Web Projects -> Uncheck “Use the 64 bit version of IIS Express for web sites and projects”`
I was trying to do similar thing. I concluded that the COM library provided by Microsoft is incomplete. I don’t use it because the doc mentioned that “Note: This topic is pre-release documentation and is subject to change in future releases”. So, I decided to take a look at what IISExpressTray.exe is doing. It seems … Read more
I had a similar issue running Visual Studio 2019 on Windows 10. Some solutions that worked for others seemed to include: Changing the application port number. Have Visual studio automatically assign a port number each time the application start. Restart Visual Studio Restart the computer. Unfortunately, none of these solutions worked for me, assigning another … Read more
I had a similar issue to @Myles J but renaming %userprofile%\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config didn’t work. What I had to do was the following: Close Visual Studio. Rename the %userprofile%\Documents\IISExpress\config directory. Start Visual Studio again. The %userprofile%\Documents\IISExpress\config directory will be recreated with the default config files. Copy the original applicationhost.config file over the autogenerated one. Before anyone asks: … Read more
To specify a port for a Web application project that uses IIS Express In Solution Explorer, right-click the name of the application and then select Properties. Click the Web tab. In the Servers section, under Use Local IIS Web server, in the Project URL box change the port number. To the right of the Project … Read more
Try changing the port number in your project? Project Properties → Web → Servers → Project Url: Don’t forget to click Create Virtual Directory, or reply “Yes” to the prompt for creating virtual directory after you change your port number! (Thanks Connor) Note: I’m a little reluctant to post this as an answer, as I … Read more
I think you can. To do this you need to edit applicationhost.config file manually (edit bindingInformation ‘<ip-address>:<port>:<host-name>‘) To start iisexpress, you need administrator privileges