ASP.NET Development Server or Localhost IIS?

Question

Currently our dev team set up all the websites they\'re working on in IIS on their local machine. We\'re thinking of switching to using the built in ASP.NET development serv

Answer 1

I know at one point I had an issue with Authentication not working as expected on Cassini (built in development server)

Also, if you need to test things like ISAPI plugins (a re-writer for example) I'm not sure how that's done on Cassini.

The constantly changing port is also rather disconcerting to me. Also, for each web project in your solution it fires up another instance of a Casini server, and each one takes anywhere from 20 to 50 MB of memory.

I use IIS all the time, it's pretty easy to setup, and you guys are already doing that...