If you ever need to host a web site on your machine (for testing or whatever), you can use the Microsoft Web Development Server (Visual Studio runs this from the IDE) manually via the command line.
I found this particularly useful to test deployment builds (eg: msdeploy) if you don’t have IIS!
There appears to be some confusion over where this EXE lives, but on my machine it is here:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\DevServer\9.0\webdev.webserver.exe
All you need to do is give it a port, a file path, and the name of the virtual directory to use.
Example:
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\DevServer\9.0\webdev.webserver.exe" /port:4955 /path:"C:\Build\Test\DotNet\Test.Project.Web" /vpath:/TestProj
