How do I get Visual Studio 2008's test web server to perform like IIS 7 or vice versa?

Question

I have a mixed MVC and Web Forms environment that works just fine in VS2008 when I debug. However when I deploy the code to my staging environment I have issues.

Basically I'm using an old school URL Rewrite module for the old Web Forms app, so I have to run the App Pool in Classic Mode for the old URL Rewriter to work. However, when I do that I get 404 errors on my MVC stuff. But if I switch them to Integrated Mode my URL Rewriter doesn't work.

The real rub is that, like I said, both the old URL Rewrite module and the MVC stuff work just fine on the test web server you get when you debug in VS2008.

Is there a way to export to or mock those settings in IIS 7?

Another thing I guess I wouldn't mind would be to set up my Web Application on my local IIS so I can at least develop against the same settings and figure out what's breaking that way. But I'm not sure where I would begin there.

Answer 1

Steve Sandersons blog has a good description regarding setting IIS for mvc. Your problem might potentially have to do with handler mapping. Basically you need to map ".*" requests to "aspnet_isapi.dll" but see the blog for an in depth description.

EDIT: wrt the blog, I was referring to his option 1. He also has a few other suggestions.