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Difference Between ASP.NET Development Server And IIS
| IIS | ASP.NET Development Server |
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| IIS is a production server which includes web server, FTP server, SMTP mail server and other facilities | ASP.NET development server runs locally on the windows operating system. It doesn't serve pages on another computer or outside the application scope. This server is to test the ASP.NET applications before it gets published to IIS |
| IIS page runs under the context of special user (like ASPNET) | ASP.NET development server then it runs under the context of the current user account |
| You can specify ports in IIS | ASP.NET development server is invoked on a randomly selected port |
| IIS supports multiple authentications like basic, windows, forms etc. | ASP.NET development server supports basic authentication. |