Changing project port number in Visual Studio 2013

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How can I change the project port number in Visual Studio 2013   I m using ASP Net and I need to change the port number while debugging in Visual Studio 2013

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The Visual Studio Development Server option applies only when you are running (testing) the Web project in Visual Studio. Production Web applications always run under IIS.

To specify the Web server for a Web site project

In Solution Explorer, right-click the name of the Web site project for which you want to specify a Web server, and then click Property Pages.

In the Property Pages dialog box, click the Start Options tab.

Under Server, click Use custom server.

In the Base URL box, type the URL that Visual Studio should start when running the current project.

Note: If you specify the URL of a remote server (for example, an IIS Web application on another computer), be sure that the remote server is running at least the .NET Framework version 2.0.

To specify the Web server for a Web application project

In Solution Explorer, right-click the name of the Web application project for which you want to specify a Web server, and then click Properties.

In the Properties window, click the Web tab.

Under Servers, click Use Visual Studio Development Server or Use Local IIS Web server or Use Custom Web server.

If you clicked Local IIS Web server or Use Custom Web Server, in the Base URL box, type the URL that Visual Studio should start when running the current project.

Note: If you clicked Use Custom Web Server and specify the URL of a remote server (for example, an IIS Web application on another computer), be sure that the remote server is running at least the .NET Framework version 2.0.

(Source: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178108.aspx)

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Steps to resolve this    Open the solution file  Find the Port tag against your project name  Assign any different port as current  Right click on your project and select Property Pages  Click on Start Options tab and checked Start URL  option  Assign the start URL in front of Start URL option like  localhost 8080 login aspx

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Open Solution file   sln  in Editable mode  Notepad or notepad   or any other tool  Find tag name VMDPort and update it to your desired port    see below snap

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This has proved to be elusive for me  WebSite Project  until I figured out the following procedure  which combines the solution provided by  Jimmy  with the added step of checking out the solution from Source Control   Steps   if using VS2013  with website project and SourceControl    Check out the Solution file only  from sourceControl   this can be tricky  the easiest way to do this is to make a small change in the Solution file properties settings and then undo if necessary  Locate the solution file  e g  solution sln  in exploer  and open in text editor   Locate the entry  VWDPort           and change to desired port   example   60000  - depends on your IISExpress Settings  save the change  will prompt to reload solution

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Well  I simply could not find this  for me  mythical  Use dynamic ports  option   I have post screenshots     On a more constructive note  I believe that the port numbers are to be found in the solution file AND CRUCIALLY cross referenced against the IIS Express config file    C  Users  lt username gt  Documents IISExpress config applicationhost config   I tried editing the port number in just the solution file but strange things happened   I propose  no time yet  that it needs a consistent edit across both the solution file and the config file

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There are two project types in VS for ASP NET projects   Web Application Projects  which notably have a  csproj or  vbproj file to store these settings  have a Properties node under the project   On the Web tab  you can configure the Project URL  assuming IIS Express or IIS  to use whatever port you want  and just click the Create Virtual Directory button   These settings are saved to the project file    lt ProjectExtensions gt     lt VisualStudio gt       lt FlavorProperties GUID   349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21   gt         lt WebProjectProperties gt          lt DevelopmentServerPort gt 10531 lt  DevelopmentServerPort gt                   lt  WebProjectProperties gt       lt  FlavorProperties gt     lt  VisualStudio gt   lt  ProjectExtensions gt    Web Site Projects are different   They don t have a   proj file to store settings in  instead  the settings are set in the solution file   In VS2013  the settings look something like this   Project   E24C65DC-7377-472B-9ABA-BC803B73C61A       WebSite1 1     http   localhost 10528     401397AC-86F6-4661-A71B-67B4F8A3A92F       ProjectSection WebsiteProperties    preProject         UseIISExpress    true          TargetFrameworkMoniker     NETFramework Version 3Dv4 5                      SlnRelativePath          WebSites WebSite1           DefaultWebSiteLanguage    Visual Basic      EndProjectSection EndProject   Because the project is identified by the URL  including port   there isn t a way in the VS UI to change this   You should be able to modify the solution file though  and it should work

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To specify a port for the ASP NET Development Server   In Solution Explorer  click the name of the application  In the Properties pane  click the down-arrow beside Use dynamic ports and select False from the dropdown list  This will enable editing of the Port number property  In the Properties pane  click the text box beside Port number and type in a port number  Click outside of the Properties pane  This saves the property settings  Each time you run a file-system Web site within Visual Web Developer  the ASP NET Development Server will listen on the specified port    Hope this helps

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This is the only solution that worked for me after trying several of those above   Switch to your c  users folder and search for  sln and then remove all  sln files that have your project name   Then restart your computer and rebuild the solution  F5  and it worked

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Right click the web application and select  properties   There should be a  Web  tab where http   localhost XXXXX is specified - change the port number there and this will modify the configuration to use your new port number   I usually start at 10000 and increment by 1 for each web app  to attempt to steer well clear of other applications and port numbers

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