在VisualStudio2010中调试多个ASP.Net项目

Question

I have a solution file with two applications loaded. Both are MVC enabled apps, one is a data API the other is a service that consumes the API. I dont have a server to house this application on yet and would like to debug them both in Visual Studio 2010, it appears that this is not a unique request, and is completely possible via this answer: How to run/debug multiple web application projects with-in the same solution?

however converting the site to a web application did not allow me to achieve debugging both projects at once. I cant even get the web-ports to align. Is this an instance where I will be forced into using a local IIS installation just for debugging purposes? or is the asp.net express server sufficient and I have not found the correct resource for setting up my applications?

Answer 1

If you need both sites to be available on same URL you have two options:

1. Use external server to host sites instead of using integrated server (any big reason you can't install IIS on your dev machine?)
2. Create 3rd project as parent of those two and add files belonging to those projects into third one. You don't need to remove other two projects or any files from them. Just make sure that you are not simply creating a copy of files, but referencing same ones.