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I recently installed DevExpress on my machine, when running it's demos

DevExpress demo

I found that the it was able to run the project on http://localhost:xxxx.

My question is:

What DevExpress is doing behind the scenes to run a project on localhost without Visual studio?

I found this question, however it only clarifies how can the project "run" manually without Visual Studio. DevExpress is programmatically running the demo project without my manual help.

Any idea? Kind folks?

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    Self hosting a web app is not magic. You can use either a server such as IIS Express, or simply write your own server based on HTTP API. Not sure what DevExpress chooses but it is feasible. – Lex Li May 20 '16 at 10:58
  • @LexLi I believe that they uses IIS Express only. Say, if you're supposed to use IIS Express, how will you do it programmatically? – Zameer Ansari May 20 '16 at 11:13
  • Possible duplicate: [Run ASP.NET project outside of Visual Studio](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23622613/run-asp-net-project-outside-of-visual-studio?lq=1) – dcreight May 20 '16 at 16:42

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Consider running the below command

iisexpress /path:c:\myapp\ /port:9090