Getting Started With IIS Host And Publish In MVC 5

Introduction

This article explains how to host your MVC 5 App in IIS Express and store the data and information in the database created in SQL Server. Visual Studio uses the ASP.NET Development Server as a default and here I am using IIS Server to host a MVC 5 App. As you know, in Visual Studio 2013 Preview the ASP.NET Web Application uses a MVC5 project template and MVC5 uses the Bootstrap theme to display the application, so here I am using the Visual Studio 2013 Preview to develop an application using the MVC project template.

Prerequisites

The following are the prerequisites to develop a MVC 5 application:

• Visual Studio 2013 Preview
• SQL Server 2008 or 2012

Creating MVC 5 Application

Let's start to develop an application in MVC 5 using the following procedure.

Step 1

Open Visual Studio 2013 Preview

Step 2: Click on "New Project" and enter the application name.

Step 3: Select MVC project template to create the project.

Step 4: In your Solution Explorer, open the Web.Config file.

As you can see, the connection property is available on my file:

Now, change the code above as shown below:

Step 5: Debug your application and click on the "Register Link" as shown below:

Step 6: Enter the details and click on the "Register" button.

You will see your UserName in your next page window:

Verify in SQL Server 2012

As you can see, I did not create a database nor any table in my SQL Server 2012. When I declared my connection string, it automatically created a database and table in my SQL Server. You do not need to worry about that.

Let's see my database in my SQL Server Object Explorer.

Select your database and open the Users Table. You can see the user information as shown below:

Publish Application

The next step is to host in IIS 8 (IIS Express). For that use the following procedure:

Step 1: In your Solution Explorer select your project and right-click to select Publish.