Scott Guthrie has recently announced regarding the upcoming IIS Express edition. This edition of IIS is currently under the development stage and the public beta release should be broadcasted soon. IIS Express mainly makes the combination of ASP.NET development server(ease of use), the power and features of standard IIS web server.

Features of IIS Express

• Support of all ASP.NET versions
• Support of all application types such as web forms, ASP.NET MVC, etc.
• Support of Windows XP, Server editions, Vista and Seven
• Support for Visual Studio 2010 and 2010 Express editions
• Includes full feature set of IIS 7 and its version 7 families. i.e. SSL, URL rewriting, support for media and other popular IIS 7 features.
• Support for web.config settings and extensibility model
• It is just of 10 MB. So, it is light weight. You will be able to launch it directly from the directory.
• Works perfectly under the corporate security environments.

Let’s see it once it is available to use.