How do I use SSL in Visual Studio 2010?

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Hey guys,

I am doing a small project in MVC 3.0 and am trying to use SSL in Visual Studio 2010. The thing is that when I set the SSL enabled to true from the website properties, and set the properties of the web to use IIS Server, it gives me an error when I run that the configuration for my website has failed. I have searched the internet to see what the error could be and tried every possible solution, yet it still won't work.

Any help please? I appreciate.

Posted 22-May-15 7:00am

developerjm

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virusstorm · Answer 1 · 2015-05-22T07:30:00

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If you are using the ASP.NET Development Web Server (which is a light weight version of IIS), you cannot do SSL. If you want to use SSL, you need to use the full version of IIS. These links should help you out.

Web Servers in Visual Studio[^]
Installing IIS 7.5 on Windows 7[^]
Enabling SSL on IIS 7.0 Using Self-Signed Certificates[^]

Posted 22-May-15 7:30am

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Richard Deeming 22-May-15 13:38pm

Are you sure?
Enabling SSL with IIS Express in Visual Studio[^]
Working with SSL at Development Time is easier with IISExpress : Scott Hanselman[^]

virusstorm 22-May-15 13:40pm

Those are for VS 2012 & VS 2013, you are using VS 2010.

developerjm 22-May-15 18:31pm

When I use it, it says Unable to launch IIS Web Server