How to run integration tests against an IIS Express site?

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Is there a good way to run .NET MSTest tests in Visual Studio against a site in the same solution, hosted in IIS Express? I've always hosted sites in IIS proper before. I'd like to be able to "Run Test" in Visual Studio and have the site automatically start in IIS Express before the tests are run. I don't see a straightforward way to do this; what am I missing?

(I can manually start IIS Express and then run tests, and I can start the site in Visual Studio and then run tests, but I would like the site to start and then have the tests run when I simply run the test.)

I would probably start with one of the answers [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4772092/starting-and-stopping-iis-express-programmatically) and then use it in the AssemblyInitialize of the tests. — John Koerner, Nov 03 '14 at 22:29
[This](http://stackoverflow.com/a/20494039/573218) answer isn't too bad, if it works properly. — John Koerner, Nov 03 '14 at 23:16

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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John Koerner reports that you would need to use the IIS Express API to start it manually in an AssemblyInitialize method. Not a very good solution.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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answered Dec 01 '14 at 02:27

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