I have a .NET Core 3.0 Razor pages project. Is it possible for it to run in the local IIS express WITHOUT publishing?
For debugging in IIS without publishing, you could follow steps below:
Run VS as administrator
Open your Razor page project
Right-Click project->properties->Debug tab
New profile->IIS
Launch-> IIS
Enter configuration you need for other fields
Run with F5
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In my solution, I have two projects: an WPF application and an ASP.NET Web API 2 created using the defaults. Under the API Properties - Web tab, I'm using IIS Express.
On the Solution Property Pages, I have Single startup project checked, with the WPF project selected. I can confirm this is the startup project because the WPF application is bolded in Solution Explorer. I've verified none of the IIS Express sites are running in the task tray.
When I hit F5, both the WPF and the Web API start running.
Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere? Why is the Web API starting despite not being the startup project?
In Visual Studio 2017, navigate to View > Properties Window. Then click the Web API project name in Solution Explorer, and set the Properties window's Always Start When Debugging option to False.
So, we have a web app we've migrated to .net core, and while it runs fine in Visual Studio 2017, because Visual Studio uses its "launchSettings.json" file to configure how IIS Express will work/launch - I, for the life of me, cannot figure out how to get VS Code to run the project. The problem is, we use HTTPS only and have always just let IIS Express used the self-signed locahost cert to allow this, so when debugging the site locally, we'd always use https://localhost:44300. As stated, this worked fine when entering this url in the launchSerttings.json file for Visual Studio, but VS Code does not use this, and the only answers I can find on this always refer to having to use the Kestrel Server's .Listen() method and used a self-signed cert and password to allow the use of an HTTPS port. 1) this seems just silly that I'd have to add this "test" code to run it locally, because I don't need it when we deploy to Azure, as Azure manages the certs and url for us. 2) Visual Studio 2017 does not need any specification on Kestrel to make this all work. So, I have hard time believing there isn't some extension, or process to achieve the same thing in Visual Studio Code that Visual Studio is doing under the hood to allow IIS Express to communicate with the .Net Core Kestrel Server.
Combing through the all the documentation suggests that the ASPNetCoreModule is what handles this communication for IIS and Kestrel, so, I would hope/guess there has to be some way to configure the web.config file's tag to include something that would make this work.
I've previously used and tried other IIS execution extensions in VS Code, but those focus on elements in the project's web.config to boot IIS which are no longer present in the web.config due to it being a .Net Core app. I had been successfully running the web app with the IIS Express Executor extension before migrating to .Net Core when the web app was a .NET Framework 4.5.2 app
So, the end goal is that I need to be able to go to https://localhost:44300 in the browser, and have our site work, but I don't want to have to add any sort of test-cert into the Kestrel config in the Program.cs or Startup.cs files. If there's no way to do this, then that will be really disappointing considering Visual Studio makes this seem like it should be very simple.
Thanks for the help.
Was able to get this to work using the following steps.
1) Install IIS Express executer in VS Code or any other similiar extension that wraps around dotnet commands
2) Download Process Explorer from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer
3) Launch Visual Studio IIS Express as you would normally
4) Open Process Explorer (may need to launch as Admin) and locate iisexpress.exe -> VSIISExeLauncher.exe
5) Right click VSIISExeLauncher.exe and click properties then locate the "Environment" tab. Inside the environment tab you will see 2 variables: LAUNCHER_PATH and LAUNCHER_ARGS. Copy both of these variables and values.
6) Next locate the configuration file for the extension you installed in VS code (mine is launch.json inside the .vscode folder in your project root directory). It will likely have an "environment" or "env" section for adding environment variables to the launch arguments. Add the two arguments copied from step 5. These vary from person to person so the value of the arguments will be unique to your machine.
7) Launch IIS-Express from vs code. My particular command for this is "IIS-EE: Start IIS Express Server" but will vary based on the extension you installed. You can hit F1 to launch commands.
Visual Studio itself uses too many tricks under the hood to make you believe it is simple. However, it is not.
I documented all necessary details in a blog post,
https://blog.lextudio.com/how-visual-studio-launches-iis-express-to-debug-asp-net-core-apps-d7fd3677e3c3
And if you follow the steps manually, you should be able to launch IIS Express the same way VS does, and then use that in Visual Studio Code. I know there is some VSCode extensions trying to integrate with IIS and IIS Express, but I do hope those authors spend more time learning such integration and improve their extensions to fully support the scenarios.
I'm in the process of setting up my first ASP.NET vNext web application project.
I've got as far as getting the default project to build and run fine in both Windows and OSX. I've tested with kestrel on the mac, and in Windows IIS Express along with kestrel.
The problem I have encountered is that in Windows, editing a cshtml View file while the web server is running isn't reflected when I next refresh the browser.
In OSX, I can run 'dnx web' and navigate to localhost:5000 and browse the site. I can then edit the .cshtml View files, switch back to the browser, hit refresh, and I can see all the changes. This is what I expect to happen and happened in previous versions.*
In Windows, I can either run dnx web or IIS Express on the same site as I was using on OSX, navigate to localhost:5000 (or for IIS Express its own port number) and browse the site. I then switch to edit the cshtml View files, but when I switch back to the browser to reset, the changes aren't shown. It's not until I restart kestrel or IIS express that the changes are shown.
Curiously, however, I can edit a .cs Controller file and the site then recompiles by itself and I don't need to re-start it - in Windows at least. (In OSX, editing a controller file doesn't cause an auto-recompile, but that's an aside, I believe dnx-watch will fix that).
Is there something that I've missed in the project.json, or another setup file, which is causing the issue in Windows?
I have tried:
creating a second completely clean web application project
reinstalling ASP.NET
desperately, lastly, creating a clean install of Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition, to no avail
What's the way to get Kestrel or IIS Express in Windows to serve the updated cshtml View file after it's been edited, without restarting the server?
*side note, ASP.NET MVC in OSX is awesome!
Following on from #SRQ Coder's response, in particular the reassurance that it's supposed to work as I hoped, I found the reason but as yet no decent solution.
My project directory is located on a network share and I load the projects directly from there (I run Parallels Desktop on a mac). This works great with ASP.NET 4.x / MVC 5 (and earlier). However it looks like ASP.NET 5 doesn't support this setup.
The moment I copied the project folder to the local C: drive it all worked fine
When opening the project from a \\network-share, the project loads and I can run/debug the website, but CSHTML edits aren't shown in browser until IIS Express/Kestrel is restarted
Opening the project from a X:\ mapped network drive doesn't make any difference
I'm not able to recreate your problem on my machine: VS2015; Win10 etc. in either the IIS mode or Web: localhost/5000 mode and on multiple browsers.
I can edit both 'shared' cshtml files like '_Layout' and also the default 'home/index cshtml file with no problem.
Since you've re-installed so much of your system, I'm wondering if you have not re-installed web-essentials and enabled 'browser link'.
I feel your pain...
I'm using Visual Studio Express 2015RC and I created a simple MVC 6 application, but when I try to publish it I don't see the option to deploy it to IIS, I see the options Microsoft Azure Web App, Import and File System, I tried the File System but It looks like it is more for creating stand alone applications to be launched from a console, now, when debugging I can select IIS Express or the web command, there is no IIS option, so the question is, how can I deploy the MVC6 web application I created to IIS?
File System publish is actually exactly what you want; All DNX applications are stand-alone, whether for ASP.NET 5 or a console app.
When you publish to the File System, you get a few folders; the wwwroot (assuming you kept the default in your project.json) folder is where IIS should point. The web.config in that folder is generated for you automatically assuming you keep everything else where it is.
For what it's worth, the official documentation will probably be here, once it's written. Also, on Stack Overflow, ASP.NET 5 project hosting on IIS probably has some useful information, though it looks like it's a bit out of date at the moment.
We are developing a Dynamic Web project using RAD which will run on WAS 7.0. We have configured WAS 7.0 within RAD to run the application directly from RAD. We also have
a web server setup and we need the static files in our Dynamic Web project to be served from Web server.
Unfortunately when we run the application from RAD, it doesn't add the information in plugin.xml file of web server. So we checked this in <WebApplication_Name>/Manage Modules section
in WAS Admin console. We are not able specify the web server target also there.
Is there anything that we can do to tell RAD to publish the application both to WAS and IHS? Could you please assist?
I am afraid this cannot be done using the RAD IDE out-of-the-box, as it just publishes your appication to WAS.
A solution to this would be to build and publish the application using a tool like Ant and place in your build script an extra step to appropriately change the plugin-cfg file.