asp.net - What are the (dis)advantages of using Cassini instead of IIS?

Question

I've found that on some occasions I can edit the source while debugging. Are there any other advantages of using the Visual Studio built-in webserver instead of a virtual directory in IIS?

I'm using Windows XP on my development environment, and a local instance of IIS 5. I work on several projects, so I use multiple virtual directories to manage all the different sites.

Are there any disadvantages?

Answer 1

The built-in web server for Visual Studio is called Cassini and here are a few of its limitations...

• It can host only one ASP.NET application per port.
• It does not support HTTPS.
• It does not support authentication.
• It responds only to localhost requests.
• It is slow startup compared to IIS