IIS Express with VS2010 SP 1 beta problem

Question

I have installed VS2010 SP1 and IIS Express Beta. Both are installed correctly, but I can't use them because the option does not appear in the context menu as Scott Guthrie describes on his blog here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2011/01/03/vs-2010-sp1-beta-and-iis-developer-express.aspx

What am I doing wrong? What should I do to activate IIS Express?

Answer 1

• Final version of IIS Express has been released last week. You didn't mention which Beta are you using, but you would be better off with the final version.
• Your Visual Studio 2010 SP1 version (as shown in the Help/About) should be 10.0.31118.1 SP1Rel.
• You could check if IIS Express works on it's own by going to it's installation directory (in Program Files and trying to run iisexpress.exe (should start a sample site WebSite1 on port 8080).