I was digging through an old external drive today and found a backup of a project I built over 15 years ago using . It hit me just how much web development has changed — and how much I actually miss that era.

Or better yet — tell me in the comments: what was the first web project you built with Visual Web Developer Express? — Mike, old-school .NET dev

There was no IIS Express yet. VWD 2010 came with its own lightweight development web server. Pressing F5 just worked . It wasn’t the fastest, but it was dead simple.

April 14, 2026

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