I would like to test my web app in other browsers. I have installed Virtual PC to do just that. the ASP.NET development server does not allow remote connections so the virtual pc (another computer on the network) cannot access the website.
I found this post that was started but there was no solution.
I understand that using localhost will not work. I heard about using the machines ip, but how do I get that correct ip? Look at my lynksys router admin?
If I were to get as far as getting my IP, im sure that the asp.net dev server does not allow remote connections. How do I enable it to do so?
I’m making some guesses about your setup here so bear with:
If your virtual machine is XP Professional, Vista Business, Windows 7 Professional or better, then you should be able to run IIS locally on the development machine and access that webserver from another machine which is on the same network via the virtual machine’s name.
Likewise, if you’re doing development on a real machine and would like to use different virtual machines to access the web application, you should make sure that you have IIS installed, create a new website in IIS and you should be to browse to the web application via machine name from your virtual machines.
Either way, don’t try to use the builtin web server from Visual Studio, just publish your site to IIS and work with it that way.
Good luck and hope this helps some.