Running ASP.NET Without IIS in VS 2005

[Rotor1]

Hi.

I have Visual Studio 2005 running on XP Home, and have been able to successfully build and run asp.net websites without having IIS.

However, I'm have a problem opening an application someone else developed using IIS. When I try to open the project I receive the following error message:

"Unable to open Web

http://localhost/AppName'.

Could not find a Web Server at 'localhost' no port 80..."

What is the problem here? Is it because I don't have IIS that this message is appearing?

Thanks!

 

[BoulderBum]

You shouldn't need IIS, but you'll need to reconfigure your project.

Try right-clicking the project, going to Properties->Web and selecting "Use Visual Studio Development Server" instead of "Use IIS Web Server".

 

[Rotor1]

When I select project properties, I see no "Web" option. I am seeing References, Build, Accessibility, Start Options, MSBuild Options. Where could I find this?

Thanks for the reply. I appreciate it.

 

[jbenson001]

I'm not sure that you can reconfigure the project, you may need to create a new project.

 

[BoulderBum]

Actually I discovered what I described is part of Microsoft's "Web Application Project" which I tend to use because I find the new build system terribly limiting.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/infrastructure/wap/

For a typical website it looks like you have the "Server" section of the "Start Options" to tinker with. Have you tried that?