Deploying a Web Application to Local IIS using Visual Studio 2017
In this post we are going to see how to deploy a web application on your development machine. The end goal is to have a web application running on the development machine outside of the context of Visual Studio and which is accessible to other devices on a local network. Install IIS Before we get started, we need to make sure that IIS is installed on our machine. Here are the steps to do that in Windows 10: Open the search dialog by pressing WinKey + S or by clicking the magnifying glass icon. Type in "Turn Windows features on or off" and click on the matching result. You'll see the "Windows Features" window (see sample image below), which has a list of folders with checkboxes beside them. Look for the folder "Internet Information Services" and make sure that the checkbox is filled with either a check or a black square. If it is, you're good to go. If the checkbox is empty, check it and click OK. Windows will install IIS for you. ...