Visual-studio – Cannot connect ASP.NET development server (VS2010) via IP address

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I can run and debug my VS2010 ASP.NET project from my development computer (where VS2010 runs). URL: http://localhost:port/MyApp.htm works fine.

Since I want to test the application from an IPad as well, I need to call the application with its IP address such as http://192.168.0.132:port/MyApp.htm

To my surprise this does not work, neither from the IPad, nor from the dev. computer itself. It is not a matter of connectivity, the address is correct / ping is possible.

(Note that I have no IIS installed on this machine, actually the ASP.NET application is plain HTML+JS, I use VS2010 just for debugging.)

Any workaround for this?

Best Answer

The Visual Studio Development Server will only serve pages to the local machine:

From Web Servers in Visual Web Developer:

If you cannot or do not want to use IIS as your Web server, you can still test your ASP.NET pages by using the ASP.NET Development Server. The ASP.NET Development Server, which is included with Visual Web Developer, is a Web server that runs locally on Windows operating systems, including Windows XP Home Edition. It is specifically built to serve, or run, ASP.NET Web pages under the local host scenario (browsing from the same computer as the Web server). In other words, the ASP.NET Development Server will serve pages to browser requests on the local computer. It will not serve pages to another computer. Additionally, it will not serve files that are outside of the application scope. The ASP.NET Development Server provides an efficient way to test pages locally before you publish the pages to a production server running IIS.

The ASP.NET Development Server only accepts authenticated requests on the local computer. This requires that the server can support NTLM or Basic authentication.

If you wish to test pages remotely you will need to use IIS or IIS Express.

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