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What is the IIS Express icon meant to be?


Using IIS Express as my development server in Visual Studio 2012, I notice a rather odd-looking silvery-blue icon appear in my system tray. It turns out this is the IIS Express icon, as shown the the following image (the IIS Express icon is on the left):

IIS Express icon shown on the left

What is this icon supposed to represent? For about a week I thought it was a stylised S, now it looks more like a tin can being crushed by a robot hand.


Solution

  • The icon illustrates a stack of blue blocks with the words:

    "INTEGRATED TOOL"
    "DATABASE ENGINE"
    "FRAMEWORK WEB APPS"
    "WEB SERVER"

    Icon in a higher resolution:
    IIS Express Icon

    I found it on this website.