For those of us too impatient to wait for a hotfix for Visual Studio to natively support IIS Express, I've done some digging and found a way to [fairly] easily setup a debugging environment for IIS Express and VS 2010 (should work for VS 2008 also, though!). This assumes you are at least an intermediate user of .NET/IIS and Visual Studio.
Prerequisites
Download and install WebMatrix beta. This download includes IIS Express (as of this posting, I did not find a standalone download of IIS Express).
Be using Visual Studio 2010 or 2008 and a web project to debug.
Steps to Setup IIS Express
It's actually quite simple to setup IIS express. Once WebMatrix is done installing, go to "My Documents\IISExpress8\config".
Read more: InterPID
Prerequisites
Download and install WebMatrix beta. This download includes IIS Express (as of this posting, I did not find a standalone download of IIS Express).
Be using Visual Studio 2010 or 2008 and a web project to debug.
Steps to Setup IIS Express
It's actually quite simple to setup IIS express. Once WebMatrix is done installing, go to "My Documents\IISExpress8\config".
Read more: InterPID