Notes, links and general development stuff
A macro to allow you quickly attach the debugger to either the Visual Studio Development Server or to IIS Express, if that’s what you’re using.
Public Module Module1 Public Sub AttachToDevServer() For Each process As EnvDTE.Process In DTE.Debugger.LocalProcesses If (process.Name.IndexOf("iisexpress.exe") <> -1 Or process.Name.IndexOf("WebDev") <> -1) Then process.Attach() End If Next End Sub End Module
A quick note about setting up a development server with SSL.
Steps:
Note that, if you’ve installed IIS Express, you may already have a certificate (named ‘IIS Express Development Certificate’ ) installed in the store. If you have, and you want to use that one, you can safely skip this section altogether.
You should have see a new certificate installed into you certificates list.
At this point, you should have an SSL binding to your site.
All that remains to be done now, is to test that the configuration is correct. In the ‘Actions’ panel at the right-hand side of the "Internet Information Services Manager" window, there should be two entries in the ‘Browse Web Site’ section:
Clicking on the first of these, you should see the default page for your site served normally via http.
Clicking the second like (https), your browser will normally generate a certificate warning. This is (generally) fine for the development, because you’re using a Self-Signed Certificate.
Accept the certificate warning, and you should see your site served up over SSL.
Note:If you want to force your site to use SSL, simply double-click the ‘SSL Settings’ widget in the Features View for your site on the “Internet Information Services” window, tick the ‘Requires SSL’ checkbox on the ‘SSL Settings’ page that appears, and click ‘Apply’ from the ‘Actions’ panel on the right-hand side.