默认情况下，我的Visual Studio程序/应用程序/网站在哪里托管？

Question

Where are my Visual Studio programs/applications/websites hosted by default (/during debugging)? I mean, when I run my project in studio or just do a right click and 'view in browser' on a page... where is the page hosted?

Someone at work mentioned 'Visual Studio server'. And also that we can direct the studio to use the local IIS.

Can anyone shed more light on this, or point to a blog/article where I can find more info?

Thanks!

Edit: I am asking this question because my WCF service authentication settings behave differently (service doesn't work) when I run the service on my local vs. on the dev server. And I am trying to figure where to look for those local settings.

Edit: I am using VS 2010, and have IIS 7 installed on my local.

Answer 1

It depends on which version you have installed. In VS 2012, if you setup a web app, it uses IIS express by default, which gives it a http://localhost:<port> (such as 2122 or something like that). You have to add it as a virtual directory for it to be hosted under IIS. You can very easily do that from your project's properties, under Web tab.

Previous versions used Cassini as the local web server.