Local IIS is also handy for testing out certain permission-related issues, since the built-in web server sort of runs as you (I say 'sort of' because of a long story I'm not going into right now, but ...

ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server. In 2011, Microsoft released ASP.NET ...

Use custom-built .NET Framework 4.0 classes to connect an ASP.NET Web application to a SQL Server 2012 database. In my recent article, I showed how to connect .NET 4.0 C# and Visual Basic applications ...

Microsoft highlighted this month why its Internet Information Service 8.0 (IIS 8.0) Web server role on Windows Server 2012 is a "no brainer" upgrade. That assessment comes from Scott Guthrie, ...

Microsoft is readying a first public beta of a new Web server, known as IIS Express. The IIS Express release "combines the use of the Microsoft ASP.Net Web Server with the full power of IIS," which is ...