I am debugging an ASP.NET MVC app from Visual Studio 2013. When I start the debug process from Visual Studio, IIS Express where app is hosted gets stuck (my app is not started). It often happens to me. In this situation, I manually stop IIS Express from the tray icon. Even stopping IIS Express from the tray icon I often need to stop manually the debugging from Visual Studio through the stop button. Once debugging is stopped, If I try to debug again it does not work, well, sometimes works and sometimes not, it is random. I have verified that if I clear all browser history and cookies, it works in most cases except for some time. Also I have observed that Visual Studio 2013 takes a long time to boot IIS Express where my ASP.NET MVC app is hosted. Finally, I have observed that my ASP.NET MVC app hosted in IIS Express sometimes is not being displayed correctly when debugging from Visual Studio, I mean, it is displayed without css styles being applied, it seems like css styles are missed. In this case, if I stop debugging and start it again it works.
So How can I improve or solve these kind of weird issues?
IIS Express gets stuck and css styles sometimes not being applied when
debugging an ASP.NET MVC application from Visual Studio 2013
This is a quite strange issue and l suggest you could try these suggestions
Suggestion
1) delete all caches under C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ComponentModelCache, C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp and C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebsiteCache.
2) close VS Instance, delete .vs hidden folder,bin,obj folder under the physcial path of the solution and then reopen your project
3) If you have IntelliTrace, please disable Enable IntelliTrace under Tools-->Options-->IntelliTrace-->General.
4) try another port like 56000 by right-clicking on the project-->Properties-->Web--> project url.
5) disable any third party extensions by Tools-->Extensions and Updates or just use devenv /safemode in developer command prompt for vs2013.
6) try to reinstall IIS on the control panel and if your IIS is not 10.0, I suggest you could download and use it.
In addition, VS2013 is too old and Microsoft does not continue to maintain it. So l suggest you could download and use the latest VS2019. It has more optimization and stronger performance than the previous VS and fixes some remaining issues from previous releases.
I got this problem: while debugging ASP.NET MVC projects I should be able to update razor views with ease and refresh the browser to see the imediate results, but when I try to do this Visual Studio freezes a lot and I have to stop debugging and sometimes to close the editor via Task Manager.
Is there any solution to this, if yes, what can I do ?
I faced the same issue. Installing Visual Studio 2015 update rc1 worked for me.
You can download it from:
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/vs2015-update1-vs.aspx
I just created a new web application (MVC 5.2.3) in Visual Studio 2015, and I regularly get errors like this on the HtmlHelpers:
I'm using .NET 4.6 (the default project was set to 4.5.2 originally, however I still had this issue with that default setting). I've looked at a bunch of similar questions on this site, and yet I haven't found a solution that consistently works. Any advice?
This sounds like a corrupted MEF cache to me. Different user, different MEF cache.
The PM of Razor Editing, Mads Kristensen, wrote an extension to make clearing the MEF cache simple. Try this: Clear MEF Component Cache.
You'll just have to restart VS after clearing; rebuilding the cache takes seconds, not minutes.
Please let us know if this solves the problem for you.
UPDATE
I'm certain this is a Visual Studio bug with no obvious solution. I've encountered a number of people who have the same exact issue. I have submitted a bug ticket with Microsoft here:
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/778864/vs2012-is-spawning-two-iisexpress-processes-when-attempting-to-debug
If you are having the same issue as described below, please go vote up the bug ticket so that it gets more attention.
Whenever I attempt to debug an MVC3 (or MVC4) application in Visual Studio 2012 configured to run on IIS express (version 8), I get the following error:
Here's the kicker: IIS Express is starting, even though Visual Studio doesn't think so and the debugger fails to attach. The IIS Express tray opens and I can clearly see all configured websites are started:
Oddly enough, the IIS Express System Tray reports that there were some errors when running IIS Express. Here's what it says:
This is a serious WTF. It's reporting that 8080 is being used by an IIS Express Process - the one that was just started by Visual Studio. So, Visual Studio is attempting to launch IIS twice, and when it predictably fails the second time, the debugger bails. I should note that before launching the debug configuration in Visual Studio, I made absolutely sure no IIS Express processes were already running. I used Process Monitor to verify that Visual Studio is in fact attempting to launch IIS Express twice:
Notice in the screen shot above you can clearly see websites running on IIS Express PID 4732. PID 4924 is the second failed attempt at launching IIS Express.
This issue was initially occurring on a Windows 7 installation. I reformatted completely, installed a fresh copy of VS2012, and got the same issue. I went a step further and reformatted, installed Windows 8 and a fresh copy of VS2012, and the issue persists.
I have created brand new blank MVC3 and MVC4 projects. Nothing fixes it.
I'm tearing out my hair here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
w.Brian, I have followed this post since it's start and have had the exact same problem for quite a while now and I have just discovered what is causing the issue for me. I have been able to reproduce and fix the error for myself with this:
The reason VS2012 is starting iis express twice is related to being attached to a domain and being logged into a domain account. Once I logged into a completely local admin account I was able to launch and debug an MVC4 application without any issues. This is using Windows 8 Pro, VS2012 Update 1, attached to my domain, and no other software/extensions/configuration. Completely clean installation.
Hi maybe this solutions could help you.
Manage RuntimeVersion=”4.0″ to “4.0.30319″
Example:
<applicationPools>
<add name=”Clr4IntegratedAppPool” managedRuntimeVersion=”v4.0.30319″ managedPipelineMode=”Integrated” CLRConfigFile=”%IIS_USER_HOME%\config\aspnet.config” autoStart=”true” /><br/><br/>
reference:Issue: Visual Studio 2012 > “Unable to launch the IIS Express Web Server”
Use Process Monitor to solve the issue
reference: Debugging the “Unable to launch the IIS Express Web server.” error from Visual Studio 2012.
Try switching to the visual studio built in web host and run it. After you run it once you should be able to switch back to iis express
reference: from the forum Unable to launch the IIS Express Web server
try re-installing Visual Studio 2010 SP1, which contains iis-express.
disable the logging module by modifying the applicationhost.config, which is located in the %userprofile%\documents\IISexpress\config directory. To do so you will need to comment out a couple lines in the file.
Under the / element, comment out the line
<add name="HttpLoggingModule" image="%IIS_BIN%\loghttp.dll" />
Under the // element, comment out the line
<add name="HttpLoggingModule" lockItem="true" />
After saving your changes try restarting iis express.
reference: from stackoverflow forum: Unable to launch the IIS Express Web server
Right click you MVC project /*all of them one by one*/
go to properties
go to web tab
you must be having having checked "Use local IIS webserver" radio box
in the textbox below it make sure no to projects have the same port which in your case is 8080
Have a look at the answer here:
http://forums.asp.net/t/1953087.aspx?VS+2013+Unable+to+launch+the+IIS+Express+Web+Server
It was strange behavior on a Windows 8 machine when 'bg' was part of the username
I might be a little late to the party - here's my two pennies:
a) http://saintgimp.org/2012/05/03/fixing-the-error-unable-to-launch-the-iis-express-web-server-failed-to-register-url-access-is-denied/
b) http://abhijitjana.net/2010/07/20/unable-to-start-web-site-on-iis-process-can-not-access-the-file-because-its-being-used-by-another-process-how-to-resolve/
Synopsis: There is a URL reservation for the current port (usually Skype)
Just in case, do you have 127.0.0.1 localhost defined in folder/system32/drivers/stc/hosts ? Otherwize, you can check here, this might just be the key.
Cheers
I had the same issue on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 using my domain account. In my case changing the Documents folder path (Right click on the Documents folder -> Properties -> Location) from C:\Users\username\Documents to D:\Documents helped
This week, I experienced this identical issue: IIS Express starts, but VS complains it couldn't start IIS Express and debugging fails.
I finally resolved the issue by applying the June 2014 hot-fix to IIS Express:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=43380
We (my IT support and I) found this hotfix after stumbling over and following a very unlikely problem. Apparently, MS verified a bug in IISExpress 8.0 which results in it misbehaving if any part of the application name contains the letter combination "bg" (my username begins with bg):
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/848945/visual-studio-2012-iis-express-fails-to-start-if-application-name-contains-bg
Note: VS 2013 Update 4 already contains this fix, which may be why some people had success simply by updating to VS 2013.
Some other links we found concerning the issue (you may have to skim a bit to find the topic):
http://forums.asp.net/t/1953087.aspx?VS+2013+Unable+to+launch+the+IIS+Express+Web+Server
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/865116/process-with-an-id-of-id-is-not-running
What worked in my situation was to unload the project, then to edit the csproj file. I removed all sections regarding IIS and IISEXPRESS. Then I reloaded the project and chose USE IIS EXPRESS from the project properties all over again. It then worked.
I ran into an identical issue today (IISExpress trying to start twice and failing when hitting Debug in Visual Studio) while helping another developer with a web forms site. After trying several solutions, we found that we could resolve the problem by:
Creating a new, empty Visual Studio solution
Adding an "Existing Website" pointing to a new, empty folder
Copying the contents of the existing (non-working) website into the new folder we created
Simply removing and re-adding the website to the original solution did not work, nor did creating a new solution and adding back the existing site. I can start IISExpress from the command line just fine.
After doing a before-and-after comparison of the .SLN files I believe that is where the problem lies. Since I had found a workaround I didn't spend a lot of extra time on it. Obviously recreating the entire solution from scratch may not be an option for larger projects (ours was a very small one) but hopefully this at least points in the right direction.
There are two instances of the site FrontEnd running of course, but notice that one instance is HTTP and the other HTTPS.
It's possible to get two instances when SSL Enabled is set to True in the web site properties but the Project Url on the Web tab is set to an HTTP address.
Make them both HTTP (or HTTPS) and that might fix it.
I'm using VS 2008 with SP1, on WinXP Pro, and I successfully installed the MVC package from Microsoft. I start a new project, select the MVC web project type, and give it a name and folder. When I press go it hangs forever.
The "ProjectName" folder is created, but nothing else is there.
I can create and open all my other projects without any issues.
Any ideas what's causing this issue? I can't try the MVC framework if I can't create a project!
If you use Process Monitor & Process Explorer, you can probably find out what VS is waiting for.
PM: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
PE: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
I had a similar issue: Instead of uninstalling Visual Studio add-ons I tried the fix.
I found this blog post form the VS team:
http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2009/03/03/hotfix-available-for-asp-net-mvc-crashes-with-azure-power-commands-resharper.aspx
that points to a fix:
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=16827&wa=wsignin1.0
It Worked!
Give a try to ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2.