Exposing IIS Express to the Network

If you want to use IIS Express and allow external access, you need to explicitly change the bindings in the solution applicationhost.config file which can be found in <solutionRoot>\.vs\config.Change the bindingInformation to:

<site name="AlbumViewerNetCore" id="2">
    <application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
      <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\projects2010\AlbumViewerVNext\src\AlbumViewerNetCore" />
    </application>
    <bindings>          
      <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:26448:*" />
    </bindings>
</site>

changing the *:26448:localhost to *:26448:* where 26448 is the IIS Express port.

Then run:

netsh http add urlacl url=http://*:26448/ user=Interactive listen=yes

to bind the http.sys entry.

Finally open the firewall to allow inbound connections to the specific IIS Express port:

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Http Port 26448" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=26448

and you should be off to the races.