Discussion:
How to preview site in IE6 and IE7
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John Bailey
2006-10-25 19:26:02 UTC
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I am developing two sites using Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.Net. I use the
built in web server to test my sites. I recently upgraded my development
machine to IE7 and have noticed that there are differences in the handling of
divs between the two browsers. I had expected this, but now I have run into
another problem.

I had thought I could view the site from a virtual pc I run on my
development machine. I use the virtual machine for another project that
requires a very specific build environment, but thought I could also take
advantage of it to view the web sites using IE6. I use a loopback adapter
with the Virtual PC to allow access to other resources on my machine, but
cannot access the web site.

I'm pretty sure if I install IIS on my dev machine this will work, but I
would prefer not to. Is there any way to view the site running in the built
in web server or is there another suggested way to run IE6 and IE7 in
parallel?
Vladimir Scherbina
2006-10-27 11:29:24 UTC
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What's wrong with the variant:

dev. machine - IE7
virtual machine - IE6?

This should work if you will setup network in virtual pc.
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Vladimir
Post by John Bailey
I am developing two sites using Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.Net. I use the
built in web server to test my sites. I recently upgraded my development
machine to IE7 and have noticed that there are differences in the handling of
divs between the two browsers. I had expected this, but now I have run into
another problem.
I had thought I could view the site from a virtual pc I run on my
development machine. I use the virtual machine for another project that
requires a very specific build environment, but thought I could also take
advantage of it to view the web sites using IE6. I use a loopback adapter
with the Virtual PC to allow access to other resources on my machine, but
cannot access the web site.
I'm pretty sure if I install IIS on my dev machine this will work, but I
would prefer not to. Is there any way to view the site running in the built
in web server or is there another suggested way to run IE6 and IE7 in
parallel?
John Bailey
2006-10-27 13:53:02 UTC
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Maybe I didn't make the issue clear. The development web server is always
running on my dev machine. The virtual machine can access all other
resources on my dev machine (including my sql server), but it cannot access
the development web server. Either the development web server is serving
only to the local IP address or is otherwise not serving pages to the virtual
machine.

I need a way to either configure the developmet web server to serve pages to
the virtual machine or run IE6 and IE7 together. I can accomplish this by
running IIS on my development machine, but would prefer not to do this.
Post by Vladimir Scherbina
dev. machine - IE7
virtual machine - IE6?
This should work if you will setup network in virtual pc.
--
Vladimir
Post by John Bailey
I am developing two sites using Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.Net. I use the
built in web server to test my sites. I recently upgraded my development
machine to IE7 and have noticed that there are differences in the handling of
divs between the two browsers. I had expected this, but now I have run into
another problem.
I had thought I could view the site from a virtual pc I run on my
development machine. I use the virtual machine for another project that
requires a very specific build environment, but thought I could also take
advantage of it to view the web sites using IE6. I use a loopback adapter
with the Virtual PC to allow access to other resources on my machine, but
cannot access the web site.
I'm pretty sure if I install IIS on my dev machine this will work, but I
would prefer not to. Is there any way to view the site running in the built
in web server or is there another suggested way to run IE6 and IE7 in
parallel?
Vladimir Scherbina
2006-10-27 07:18:19 UTC
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John,

I guess you should ask this question on Visual Studio newsgroup ...
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Vladimir
Post by John Bailey
Maybe I didn't make the issue clear. The development web server is always
running on my dev machine. The virtual machine can access all other
resources on my dev machine (including my sql server), but it cannot access
the development web server. Either the development web server is serving
only to the local IP address or is otherwise not serving pages to the virtual
machine.
I need a way to either configure the developmet web server to serve pages to
the virtual machine or run IE6 and IE7 together. I can accomplish this by
running IIS on my development machine, but would prefer not to do this.
Post by Vladimir Scherbina
dev. machine - IE7
virtual machine - IE6?
This should work if you will setup network in virtual pc.
--
Vladimir
Post by John Bailey
I am developing two sites using Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.Net. I use the
built in web server to test my sites. I recently upgraded my development
machine to IE7 and have noticed that there are differences in the
handling
of
divs between the two browsers. I had expected this, but now I have run into
another problem.
I had thought I could view the site from a virtual pc I run on my
development machine. I use the virtual machine for another project that
requires a very specific build environment, but thought I could also take
advantage of it to view the web sites using IE6. I use a loopback adapter
with the Virtual PC to allow access to other resources on my machine, but
cannot access the web site.
I'm pretty sure if I install IIS on my dev machine this will work, but I
would prefer not to. Is there any way to view the site running in the built
in web server or is there another suggested way to run IE6 and IE7 in
parallel?
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