Lost the ability to run two projects from the same solution with IIS Express in VS2019 CE - unable to connecto to web server IIS Express

Question

User379720387 posted

Was working fine last week.

Did a clean, a rebuild, stopped IIS Express and such, still the end result is I cannot Debug or Run the second project in my solution.

Even installed a new version of VS2019 CE, that didn't fix it either.

WebAPI project runs fine.

WASM  does not run and will not debug.

Dead in the water.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

User288213138 posted

Hi wavemaster,

Did a clean, a rebuild, stopped IIS Express and such, still the end result is I cannot Debug or Run the second project in my solution.

Even installed a new version of VS2019 CE, that didn't fix it either.

WebAPI project runs fine.

WASM  does not run and will not debug.

Can you tell me what is  VS2019 CE?

Does it alert any error messages?

Best regards,

Sam

Answer 2

User379720387 posted

CE - Community Edition

The error message in VS is (I could not make this smaller): 

unable to connecto to web server IIS Express

By some stroke of luck I found a thread here.

Just like the others I can browse to the site VS2019 says it cannot connect to.

Answer 3

User288213138 posted

Hi wavemaster,

unable to connecto to web server IIS Express

About this error, you can try below steps.

1. Delete YourSolutionFolder\.vs\your project name\config\applicationhost.config file (note: .vs is a hidden folder).
2. Open Visual Studio, right-click on web site > Properties > Web> Servers> Project Url - change port number (don't forget to click Create Virtual Directory).
3. Launch your app. You can change the App URL back again afterwards, this just ensures VS will regenerate your applicationhost.config.

Best regards,

Sam

Answer 4

User379720387 posted

Yippee!