IIS Express Windows Authentication

Question

I'm trying to use IIS Express with VS2010 to host a silverlight application. I modified my applicationhost.config file to allow for modification of the proper configuration settings. I have the following in my web.config:

<location path="">
  <system.webServer>
    <security>
      <authentication>
        <anonymousAuthentication enabled="false" />
        <windowsAuthentication enabled="true" />
      </authentication>
    </security>
  </system.webServer>
</location>

I am not being authenticated and my domain service call returns a null record as the user. I was able to get this to work after installing VS2010 SP1 BETA but I'm trying to get this to work with only IIS Express.

How do I enable Windows Authentication to work with IIS Express. Is there a configuration setting that I am missing?

Answer 1

On the same note - VS 2015, .vs\config\applicationhost.config not visible or not available.

By default .vs folder is hidden (at least in my case).

If you are not able to find the .vs folder, follow the below steps.

1. Right click on the Solution folder
2. select 'Properties'
3. In Attributes section, click Hidden check box(default unchecked),
4. then click the 'Apply' button
5. It will show up confirmation window 'Apply changes to this folder, subfolder and files' option selected, hit 'Ok'.
   
   Repeat step 1 to 5, except on step 3, this time you need to uncheck the 'Hidden' option that you checked previously.

Now should be able to see .vs folder.

Answer 2

This answer may help if: 1) your site used to work with Windows authentication before upgrading to Visual Studio 2015 and 2) and your site is attempting to load /login.aspx (even though there is no such file on your site).

Add the following two lines to the appSettingssection of your site's Web.config.

<add key="autoFormsAuthentication" value="false" />
<add key="enableSimpleMembership" value="false"/>