ASP.NET Development Server or Localhost IIS?

Question

Currently our dev team set up all the websites they\'re working on in IIS on their local machine. We\'re thinking of switching to using the built in ASP.NET development serv

Answer 1

As I stated here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/103785/what-are-the-disadvantages-of-using-cassini-instead-of-iis your developers need to be aware that Cassini runs as the local user, which is typically an admin account for developers. The development will be able to access any file or resource that their account can, which is quite different from what they will see on an IIS 6 server.

The other thing that's a pretty big gotcha is debugging web services is much easier using IIS and vdirs rather than separate Cassini instances.