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IISTools

IISTools

saliehendricks

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IIS Tools lets you manage IIS properties from within Visual Studio. View and Set the paths for websites, attach to process, stop/start/restart app pools. Makes switching between branches fast and easy..
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This extension lets you modify IIS Settings directly from Visual Studio. Set website paths, attach to process, stop/start/restart app pool.

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Once installed go to View > Other Windows > IIS Tools to open the window

To save a new path for a site:

  1. Select the site from the tree
  2. Change the path in the text box
  3. Save

This is useful when your setup uses IIS (not express) and you tend to have one site that you use for multple branches of work. I tend to always use mysite.mymachine.com

Stop/Start/Restart Website:

  • Right click on the IIS site and perform a Start/Stop/Restart

Attach to Process:

  • Right click on the IIS site and Attach

**v1.2

  • Added a scroll bar for users with lots of sites.**

TODOs:

  • Fix the dropdown colors
  • Add restart IIS to main main tree node
  • Attach to process to attach to the specific instance of the w3p process.

My mishmash of a github profile: https://github.com/saliehendricks

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