Detect development server in asp.net (Visual Studio)

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Can you programatically detect if the Development server in Visual Studio is used instead of IIS?

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Is there a specific reason to do so? If you are merely trying to separate out environments, perhaps compilation flags would be better (i.e. DEBUG etc) - rifferte

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In Visual Studio 2010, Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_SOFTWARE") will return Nothing (null) for the Development Server, and "Microsoft-IIS/7.5" for my Win7 Pro IIS/VS2010 installation.