IIS Express Issue?

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User-1402466762 posted

I am working in a visual studio premium 2013 solution that has a web project and class library. The web project is called UI and the class library project is called AppService. We are using ServiceStack and AngularJS. The UI project is calling the AppService project via AngularJS controller. The class library is a pass through which calls APIs for data.

The web project was created as an empty web project that another team member created. Items were added as needed. It is set up to use IIS Express. The web project is defined to use port 30000 so that the URL is http://localhost:30000/. When I try running the application using port 30000 I am not getting data back; heck, when I am in debug mode I am not stepping into the AppService project. I am the only person on the team experiencing this problem. There are four other developers on the team.

In the UI project we have a Global.asax file. In the Application_Start property we are setting a new instance of the AppServiceAppHost object. We are able to step into this method when debugging.

The crux of the problem is that when I change the port number to something other than 30000 (e.g. 30001, 30002) everything works. We are getting data; we step into the AppService project when debugging.

When I am using port 30000, I am seeing in the IIS express logs the error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" with the stack trace pointing to ServiceStack.HttpHandlerFactory..ctor().