I have several servers which contain several hundred websites in logical groupings. All of these sites are live and running under IIS 8 on Windows Server 2012.
On my development workstation, I have created a shared network drive to the root directory where these websites exist on the server. For example, on a server named server1 the websites exist under c:\websites\. On the workstation I map that to be X:\.
Until I installed Visual Studio 2013 whenever I need to update any of the websites I would launch Visual Studio and from the File menu Open and then Website. On the File System tab then browse to the folder on the Network Share and open. That still works for editing the website, saving, and building. However, sometimes, the site opens with the expected name of the directory. All of our website directories are carefully named subdomain.domain.tld, likewww.mydomain.com. However, many times the site opens as localhost_XXXXX where XXXXX is a number that I believe represents some port number. Almost always I want to save the solution and in the past the naming convention was Documents and Settings\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\www.mydomain.com for example.
How can I prevent this localhost naming convention?? Where is a Microsoft document that explains what all this means and why it is happening? Thank you in advance for any help