On Visual Studio 2010 + IIS Express 7 I was able to use IIS Express as a server and browse sites.
I\'ve since installed Visual Studio 2012 (on Windows 7 64-bit) with
I resolved my issues with IIS by installing WebMatrix (download). I ran WebMatrix, opened a site in WebMatrix and IIS fired up just fine. Closed WebMatrix and ran an ASP.NET MVC site in VS and it worked.