How to connect two computers together to be able to share an asp.net mvc web application

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I have built an asp.net mvc3 web application on my machine that uses windows 7.

Now I need to host this web application locally on my machine to be accessed by two employees in our office which uses Windows XP. So I need to know the following:

  1. How do I host my asp.net mvc web application inside my machine? and then connect the other two machines to use the asp.net mvc application?
  2. How to physically connect all these PCs together?

Best Answer

  1. Install IIS on your machine and allow access on port 80 from those particular machines. If your IT policy prevents this, stop now and ask permission.
  2. Publish your app to IIS (web deploy makes this super easy).
  3. There's a 99% likelihood your office already has a network and these PCs are all on it, so get your colleagues to go to http://your-machine-name-or-ip-address to use the web app.
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