How to run IIS Express as a process started via a Windows Service

Question

I am trying to distribute IIS Express with my application. IIS Express will serve external web requests on port 80.

I have no problems running IIS Express as well as

Answer 1

There was a similar question (running iisexpress without console window) on iis.net forums. Please take a look at http://forums.iis.net/p/1175262/1970513.aspx#1970513