It’s possible to do a lot of work with ASP.NET and not know anything about IIS,
particularly if you work with a large team where IT specialists keep the riff-raff
away from production web applications. Ever since Visual Studio started shipping
its own web server1, many people don’t rely on IIS for day
to day development work (although many of us still do).
For those of you who are just learning how to deploy in IIS, or those of you who
need a refresher, I put together a short and free Pluralsight screen cast on IIS: Web Sites, Applications, and Virtual Directories in IIS
This is one video in a collection of screencasts from Pluralsight.
1) Some people call the web server “Cassini”. Other people call it the “WebDev”
server. Still others call it “the web thingy that sits in my system tray”,
even though Windows doesn’t have a system tray, but whatever. If you worked with the first
release of Visual Studio, you’ll know we’ve come a long way from running as an administrator
with Front Page Extensions installed and the IDE trying to force all of our code
to live underneath inetpub\wwwroot <shudder />.
