ASP.NET Development Server
Some weeks ago I tried to access the ASP.NET Development Server running on my workstation from a virtual machine for testing purpose. I was not able to get a connection. After checked firewall settings, other computers and did some Google searches I gave up because I did not want to spend more time.
Today I did another Google search and found this MSDN page. It says:
If you cannot or do not want to use IIS as your Web server, you can still test your ASP.NET pages by using the ASP.NET Development Server. The ASP.NET Development Server, which is included with Visual Web Developer, is a Web server that runs locally on Windows operating systems, including Windows XP Home Edition. It is specifically built to serve, or run, ASP.NET Web pages under the local host scenario (browsing from the same computer as the Web server). In other words, the ASP.NET Development Server will serve pages to browser requests on the local computer. It will not serve pages to another computer.
I think have to live with that because I do not want to install an IIS on my workstation.
