Process with an ID is not running in visual studio professional 2013 update 3

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I am trying to run any program on visual studio 2013 update 3 and I get the following alert box     Process with an ID      is not running      every time there is different ID number showing   and in the error windows I get this error msg    The program   3148  iisexpress exe  has exited with code -1073741816  0xc0000008   An invalid handle was specified     Sometimes it runs and in the browser i get the following message   The webpage is not available   I have looked around and try almost everything and I stil cannot fix the problem   Please help anyone

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With respect to the first error      Process with an ID      is not running   This situation will sometimes occur when IIS Express fails to bind to a port  A likely reason for that is that some other process has already bound to that port  Visual Studio will launch the IISExpress exe process  which will fail to bind to the port and exit again  and then attach to the now-terminated process  resulting in the above error   To check  note the port number in your project settings  e g  12116  and then try   netstat -ano   find  12116    If another process has the port open  this will give its PID  You can then choose to kill the offending process or reallocate your own port number

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startMode  alwaysRunning  in  SOLUTION DIR bis  vs config applicationhost config caused it for me  Try to remove that string and everything will work again  even without restart of VS

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This can happen for various reasons  helpfully - if you run IISExpress exe   Program Files  x86  IISExpress iisexpress exe for 32-bit   Program Files IISExpress iisexpress exe for 64-bit  in the command line  you ll get some more details  In my case   C  Program Files IIS Express gt iisexpress exe  Filename      C  Users My Username Documents IISExpress config applicationhost config Line number  15 Error  Configuration file is not well-formed XML   Nice and easy to fix  that one my was my fault though

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Easily solved    Open Visual Studio as an administrator Right-click your project and click on  Unload Project  Again  right-click your project and click on  Edit PROJECT NAME csproj  Find the code below and delete it    lt DevelopmentServerPort gt 63366 lt  DevelopmentServerPort gt   lt DevelopmentServerVPath gt   lt  DevelopmentServerVPath gt   lt IISUrl gt http   localhost 63366  lt  IISUrl gt   Save and close the file  csproj Right-click your project and reload it See its working

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None of the listed solutions worked for me  Problem was some sort of conflicting state in local applicationhost config file  Fix is easy  just delete one in your solution  For VS2015 it should be located in  lt path to your solution gt  Solution  vs config   When you launch Debug  VS will recreate that file based on settings in your project file

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cmd - regedit-HKEY LOCAL MACHINE-SYSTEM-CurrentControlSet-Services-HTTP-START 3   Computer restarted   worked for me

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What fixed it for me was running the project from a different file in my solution  Specifically  2 of my files are named web config  so I just ran from the other one

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I had the same problem  Just restarting Visual Studio worked for me

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I have the same problem  Here are some of the things I ve done that haven t worked   Delete the  vs folder in my project Delete the IIS Express folder in My Documents Add  CSRUN DISABLE WORKAROUNDS to environment variable Restart the computer Restart Visual Studio Change the port Even re-install visual studio Uninstall IIS 10 0 Express via Control Panel  then reinstall  I ve tried almost all the solutions I got from several forums and none of them have worked  Finally I found the source of the problem  The source of the problem is not from my project nor from my visual studio  but from my IIS  When I open iisexpress exe from C  Program Files IISExpress  the command prompt closes immediately  If your IIS Express is fine  then what will appear is as shown below   What I do is reset or reinstall IIS Express via Turn Windows Features on or off in Control Panel  And follow the step by step contained in the following link  My Worked Solution  This is the only way that worked for me  and hopefully it will help the others too

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go to Properties of the start up project  increment port number of the Project Url is probably the quickest way to get around this problem which I didn t read anyone mentioned yet    And you don t need to restart VS as it can be a pain sometimes if you needed a few other instances needed to be running

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I had a similar problem with Chrome    It appears that VS can t attach to the Chrome process for some reason    Solution   1  Close Chrome  2  With Chrome closed  start the web project and allow VS to open Chrome   Hope that helps

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Deleting the hidden  vs folder didn t work for me since the port specified in my app was being used by another app  Doing the following worked for me    Went to properties and then click the web tab  Changed the port number in the Start Url and the Project URL  Clicked Create Virtual Directory  Save and Press F5

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It looks like there are many solutions that work and some that don t     My issue kept surfacing after a few test iterations  Yes restarting the PC and or VS would resolve the issue   but temporarily      My solution was to undo a security change I had enabled a couple days   earlier to Controlled folder access under Ransomware protection    I undid this change by    right click Start  Setting- Update  amp  Security- Windows Security- Virus  amp  threat protection-  Virus  amp  threat protection settings- Manage settings  Under Controlled folder access Click- Manage Controlled folder access  this is also the Ransomware protection screen   Turn Controlled folder access off   This was 100  the issue for me as I was able to run my test without restarting VS

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I had a similar issue  but mine was the presence of deleted image files in the drive   I removed it  deleted  vs hidden folder  now it works

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I had the same problem  and what needed to be done was setup IIS Express properly    I right clicked on my project Properties    Web  tab  and on Servers  Project URL was already pre-populated and I clicked the button  Create Virtual Directory     I had just reinstalled  refreshed  windows and the IIS was not setup b c it was new   Hope this helps

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What I did to make this go away   Open C  Users gr mext1 Documents IISExpress config applicationhost config and remove all  lt site gt  entries in  lt sites gt  do not remove  lt siteDefaults gt    In your project  go to Properties  Web and click  Create Virtual Directory     Close and re-open visual studio  load your project and run  Fixed

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Tried most of the things here to no avail  but finally found a fix for my machine  so thought I d share it   Following previous advice in another question  I had used netsh to add    to iplisten  It turns out undoing that was my solution  by simply replacing add in their advice   netsh http delete iplisten ipaddress      You can also do this manually by deleting HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services HTTP Parameters ListenOnlyList from the registry and restarting the service your PC

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I came across the same problem and found that somehow the file  applicationhost config   in    Documents IISExpress config  had a different localhost port number  in the  sites  section  to the one specified in project properties web  Changed them to the same number and the problem went away

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I tried the first error and that didn t help me  However What did work for me was to delete the hidden   vs  folder which is at the solution root

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Found the solution   I had something similar    It took a while to figure this out  Have tried   1  Reinstalling the whole VS2019 web development environment 2  Deleting   userprofile  Documents IISExpress  3  Deleting projects    vs  folders 4  Removing  IIExpress 10  from  Programms  in Win10 5  Changing projects  settings properties   The main problem was a registry entry Start located at   HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services HTTP   So  changing value of a key Start from 4 to 3 and rebooting fixed the issue   One of possible reason I would recall is running the Laragon which required changing this value to 4 to start an Nginx web server

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For me  none of the other solutions worked  The things I tried    Updating and patching everything associated with Visual Studio Reinstalling Visual Studio Reinstalling IIS Express Several reboots Adding the  WORKAROUND thing to the PATH Renaming the IIS folder under documents to regenerate the IIS config Manually editing the csproj file and removing the whole IIS settings section Changing the IIS executable usage to 64bit in VS settings Changing the port of IIS in the projects settings   After checking if the problem was persistent over different projects  it turned out that the problem only occurred in one specific projects  I figured that I had to delete all the user specific files in the solutions folder  such as bin  obj    suo       I just deleted the whole solution folder and reverted the files in git      TLDR    Try deleting user specific files folders like bin  obj    suo

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In my situation Adobe was using the same port  After stopping the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop process  VS functioned as expected

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Resolution I found   Head to the following directory      userprofile  documents IISExpress Config directory   Delete all files within that folder  Restart visual studio and works like a charm

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If you are using a 64-bit machine  Then the problem maybe due to Visual Studio use of 32-bit IIS-Express   Solution  In Visual Studio  go to Tools menu   Options   Projects and Solutions   Web Projects   Enable the option  Use the 64 bit version of IIS Express  and click ok

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I found the solution here   https   www codeproject com Tips 1029540 Solved-Process-With-An-Id-Of-Is-Not-Running  Edited the project file and deleted the lines    lt DevelopmentServerPort gt xxxxx lt  DevelopmentServerPort gt   lt DevelopmentServerVPath gt  lt  DevelopmentServerVPath gt   lt IISUrl gt http   localhost xxxxx  lt  IISUrl gt

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First Error  For the first error      Process with an ID      is not running     The following steps worked for me    Close all instances of Visual Studio  Rename the IISExpress folder  in my PC is in C  Users jmelosegui Documents   Add the  CSRUN DISABLE WORKAROUNDS Environment System variable with the value of 1    Start Visual Studio in administrator mode   In Windows  right click the executable file and select Run as administrator     Second Error  The second error      The webpage is not available   What caused this error   I deleted IIS Express Development Certificate while playing with the SSL   The following steps worked for me    Go to Control Panel  Select Add Remove Programs  Locate IIS 8 0 Express  Right click on it then click Repair  Your certificate should be back    Hope this helps

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Same error Process with an ID      is not running using visual studio 2015 RC   Only go rid of the message after repair IIS 10 in Control Panel - Programs and Features  Renato

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Kilanny your answer is correct  Most machines in 2015 are 64bit  so there s a lot of chances that you just need to enable the 64bit option under the Tools main navigation link menu  No need to configure other files or hard code ports  Besides  port assignment should be dynamic  This fix applies to 2013 With Update 3 and Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition    Check the images below for a mini tutorial   I m just improving Kilanny s answer

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For me  VS uses Firefox for the default browser  Restarting VS and closing all Firefox windows seems to resolve this issue

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Running as administrator didn t seem to make a difference when I got this    Make sure all iisexpress exe processes had been closed Edit  lt path to your solution gt  Solution  vs config applicationhost config Change the site name    lt site name  MySite  id  1  serverAutoStart  true  gt   to     lt site name  MySite2  id  1  serverAutoStart  true  gt  That fixed it for me

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Close VS  Navigate to the folder of the solution and delete the hidden  vs folder  Restart VS  Hit F5 and IIS Express should load as normal  allowing you to debug   If this not working  then    right click your solution and go to properties Click left menu Web tag  Click checkbox  Override application root Url    and run again your project

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The following steps fix the problem for Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017    Close VS  Navigate to the folder of the solution and delete the hidden  vs folder  Restart VS  Hit F5 and IIS Express should load as normal  allowing you to debug       Note  Based on my experience and others in the comments  this problem seems to be caused by moving a project between workstations  environments  or versions of Visual Studio  There must be some environment specific information contained in the  vs folder

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Reboot your computer before trying any of these   Some of these may be helpful   Doing the netstat trick   netstat -ano   find   helped me as another application was using my port  but didn t completely solve my problem   IIS Express still kept crashing   It wasn t until I rebooted my win 10 PC  first time in over a week   that my problem completely cleared up

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Close your instance of Visual studio  Start it again in Administration mode   Run as Admin

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I recently had the same issue with VS 2013 and IIS Express    Process with an ID      is not running       every time there is different ID number showing    Here was the solution I found that worked for me   1  Go into the Documents -  IIS Express -  config -  applicationhost config  2  I opened applicationhost config in Notepad    3  Under the tag   there are lines of code that looks like this         lt add name  Clr4IntegratedAppPool  managedRuntimeVersion  v4 0  managedPipelineMode  Integrated  CLRConfigFile   IIS USER HOME  config aspnet config  autoStart  true  gt                    lt processModel loadUserProfile  true    gt           lt  add gt    4  Remove these two lines                   lt processModel loadUserProfile  true    gt            lt  add gt    5  Change the END of the first line to               lt add name  Clr4IntegratedAppPool  managedRuntimeVersion  v4 0  managedPipelineMode  Integrated  CLRConfigFile   IIS USER HOME  config aspnet config  autoStart  true    gt    Notice that all I did was close the tag by adding      after  true    I am now able to run my projects in a web browser AND debug my code    Also  I had updated to Update 4  but was having the same issue  I believe appending the applicationhost config file was what fixed the problem    I hope this helps

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If you re using git as source control  you should also make sure that any user specific files are ignored     Dd ebug   Dd ebugPublic   Rr elease   Rr eleases  x64  x86  bld   Bb in   Oo bj   Ll og    If they re already tracked  then use git -r rm --cached  This resolved the error for me

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I update my Visual Studio to 2019 version and has this problem  I tried all solution from this question but it doesn t help to start my ASP NET MVC 5 project with IIS Express  After I remove IIS Express  using Control Panel   download last version from www microsoft com and install it  After this everything works fine    After some weeks i got update for Visual Studio and I got this problem again  I remove IIS Express and reinstall and it works fine now   p s  repair didn t help me  only uninstall and install

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I also had the same problem  doing the above didn t work for me  What my error turned out to be was twofold     I had Opera as my default browser and it couldn t attach to that   I had multiple startup projects so it wouldn t let me switch to IE until I change the default startup project back to just the MVC shell    I set that project specifically as the startup  then I switched it back to launching IE and it started debugging again   Hope that helps

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