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In order for IIS Express to find its configuration files, you need to make sure Parallels does not map OS X Documents folder to Windows Documents folder.ģ) Update Network Adapter Settings for your Windows 7 Installation: We want OS X to be able to ping Windows 7. But since I’m only planning to use my Parallels virtual machine for ASP.NET development, I took the risk and disabled the entire firewall.Ģ) Fix Parallels Sharing Preferences Before Installing Visual Studio: This took me the longest time. Here are the steps that I followed to make all this work:ġ) Disable Firewall in Windows 7: Obviously the ideal way of dealing with this would be opening ports for your web applications. Little did I know that I needed to take quite a few steps to be able to access my web application from Safari OS X. Then I installed Visual Studio 2013 and started getting my hands dirty. Since I need Visual Studio to build ASP.NET Web Api’s, I purchased Parallels and installed Windows 7 as a virtual machine. My aim is to be able to build a back end for an iOS App eventually so I am planning to put all of the moving parts together on my MacBook. For my upcoming Flatiron School Meet-up talk, I’ve been learning about ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Api’s.