Is it possible to change the hostname that the development server fires up in visual studio 2008? Ultimately I would like visual studio to start directly on http://localhost.:xxxx/ (note the period). As I am doing more ajax type calls I find that I need to inspect traffic more often using tools like fiddler to check responses/requests. (Fiddler cannot see requests over http://localhost/ as they do not traverse the regular network stack).
I looked through the web server configuration page but nothing jumped out.
I don't particularly want to go the route of configuring IIS on the box but would consider it with a compelling answer.
If you have a simple setup, you might try a new option added in v2.2.4.0.
Inside the registry, under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Fiddler, add a new Reg_SZ named HookWithPac with the value set to True. You should find that Fiddler now registers as the system proxy using a simple PAC script rather than manually specifying 127.0.0.1:8888. This, in turn, causes IE to send LocalHost traffic to Fiddler.
Please let me know if this works out for you!