Have you ever needed to quickly spawn a web server against a local folder to preview a web application? If not, what would you say you do here ? This is actually quite common for me since I receive a lot of zip files containing web applications which reproduce a bug. After I unzip the repro, I need a way to quickly point a web server at the folder and run the web site. A while back I wrote about a useful registry hack to do just this. It adds a right click menu to start a web server (Cassini) pointing to any folder. This was based on a shell extension by Robert McLaws . Well that was soooo 2008. It?s almost 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is out which means it?s time to update this shell extension to run an ASP.NET 4 web server. Obviously...(read more) ...
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