• Standalone portable IIS with your site

    Let’s say you have a following task: your small ASP.NET (MVC) website needs to be run on a computer that does not (necessarily) IIS have installed. How to make it possible? You can do it using IIS Express. It is a small version of IIS server that Microsoft ships for free with at http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=1038. It is shipped with Visual Studio 2010 SP1 too (so there is a chance you already got it in C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS Express). They say it’s not xcopy deployable (meaning you cannot run it without installation) but it kinda is. You have to simply install it on one machine and take out what the files you…