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Can we ship a small webapp with IIS Express?


Is there a way to ship a small webapp in MVC2 with IIS Express, so there will no need for installing it on IIS, what's the version, ohh I don't have cause I want to run this on Windows Vista Home, etc etc ...

Kind'a having a small exe and run the WebApp on the IIS Express, for those who prefer the web environment rather than a windows environment to work, and off course, been a webapp, it should be able to be access it from any computer on the ethernet.


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  • From the IIS blog:

    Distributing IIS Express

    The official release allows you to distribute the IIS Express MSIs as-is. Since this is enabled by the licensing agreement, you don’t need special approval.

    Note that you can’t distribute the IIS Express official release in any other way. For example, you can’t copy a subset of the binaries that are included in the MSI and ship them as part of your product. Please review the IIS 7.5 Express EULA before you distribute IIS Express.

    Source: http://blogs.iis.net/vaidyg/archive/2011/01/17/iis-7-5-express-official-release-highlights.aspx