Microsoft 9GD00001 manual Add Web Site window

320Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner’s Guide

Figure 11-7 The Add Web Site window

8.In IIS Manager, select Application Pools. An application pool is a process that you can assign Web sites to. This gives Web sites protection from each other because if one process crashes, it doesn’t bring down Web sites in other processes. IIS created an application pool for your Web site with the same name when creating it previously. Double-click the application pool named after your Web site and set its .NET Framework version to v4. The exact version number could vary in the future, so you want to ensure it’s the same .NET Framework version number that you build your application with in VS.

Once your Web site is set up, you can deploy, which is discussed next.