Sometimes I just want to run my web app locally and have a look-see without touching Visual Studio. So I threw this in a batch file I access from my solution root that lets me do it. Here's the command:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\WebDev.WebServer2.exe" /port:8080 /path:"C:\Documents and Settings\mnichols\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\eMerge\src\app\Cei.eMerge.Web" /vpath:"/eMerge"
This runs the Web dev server on port 8080 and maps to a virtual path 'eMerge'.
Now I can just click my firefox.bat that opens a new window at that path:
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -new-window "http://localhost:8080/eMerge"
Fun.