WebDev.WebServer.EXE Crashes After VS 2008 SP1 Install - asp.net

Since, for various reasons, I can't use IIS for an ASP.NET website I'm developing, I run Cassini from the command line to test the site. However, after installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1, I get a System.Net.Sockets.SocketException when I try to start up the web server. Is anyone else having this problem, and if so, how did you fix it?

Is there anything in the Application section of the event log?
Have you tried using a different port?
Per this thread, try:
Unbind from Visual Source safe, delete the web project from the solution, rename the folder where the website is stored and then re add to the solution as an existing web site and then bind to source safe again.
There may be some incorrect info in your .suo or .sln file. You can safely rename the former, as it is user-specific (solution user options); the latter (the solution itself) would be a bit more of a hassle to recreate.

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You do not have permission to access the IIS configuration file - Web app error

I am trying to load existing c# web applications and getting below errors while loading any web project:
Creation of the virtual directory http://localhost:/ failed with the
error: You do not have permission to access the IIS configuration
file. Opening and creating web sites on IIS requires running Visual
Studio under an Administrator account.. You will need to manually
create this virtual directory in IIS before you can open this
project.
The following error occurred when trying to configure IIS Express for
project xxx.WebApi. You do not have permission to access the IIS
configuration file. Opening and creating web sites on IIS requires
running Visual Studio under an Administrator account.
I tried following, but in vain:
Running VS 2017 pro as an administrator.
I ensured that I have access to %systemroot%\System32\inetsrv\ and C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\Config folders.
I have installed all IIS compatibility windows features through control panel.
Restarted IIS manager.
Created virtual directories.
Changed registry path of HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Personal from u:\ to C:\Users\MyUser\Documents.
Uninstalled IIS Express 10.0 from control panel and reinstalled it through VS2017 installer by clicking – Individual components – cloud, database server – IIS Express.
Repaired VS 2017.
Got admin access on machine.
Created new empty web project but getting same error while new console app runs without errors.
Restarted machine after every installation related change.
All the solutions tried are mentioned on stackoverflow but are not working for me. Is there something trivial that I am missing? Please guide me to crack these IIS errors.
I was able to solve this issue doing the following:
1- Go to C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv and double click on directory config and accept the warning message.
2- Go to C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config directory and double click on directory Export and accept the warning message.
Then you will be able to run the app in your local IIS without being an administrator. You can follow the path in the given Image.
This solved the problem for me with Visual Studio 2017, .Net Core 2.2 and IIS Express 10.
You need to ensure devenv.exe has sufficient permissions. You can find it at:
C:\Program Files OR Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio nn.n\Common7\IDE
Right click on the exe, select Properties, Security. I gave Administrators full control as I'm running VS under admin.
My Simple solution was to right click on Visual Studio and click Run as Administrator. But a solution above tells you how to have Visual Studio always run without having to run as an administrator.
All these solutions could not work for me. The issue was, I have accidently uninstall IIS from control panel even it was install and showing me. but was removed from control panel. I reinstall IIS latest version and able to fixed the problem. This might help for others.
This link help me
VS2017 RC - The following error occurred when trying to configure IIS Express
The issue for me was caused when I modified my project to override application root URL. After a push/merge and new branch my project would not load any longer. reverted the changes and all is well again.
Open an elevated command prompt and enter the following command to substitute a drive path for U drive.
c:\windows:\system32> Subst u: C:\Users\MyUser\Documents
I had replaced ‘U:’ path in registry with ‘C:\Users\MyUser\Documents’ previously. I think that was not sufficient. Some references of u:\ might have been hindering IIS.
The total substitute command must have replaced all references and the IIS config error got resolved. Hopefully, now I’ll be able to load my web apps.
I had the same issue, but instead of the workarounds (such as first double-clicking certain directories each time or running the security risk of always having to always run my VS as administrator), was able to permanently resolve the issue by deleting the "ProjectName.csproj.user" file and that fixed it. I guess there was some incompatible setting in the user file that VS couldn't deal with.
For older versions, change the option from IIS to your solution name, before clicking on the green play like run button, to build and run the application.
We resolved this by removing the project and adding it back.
If you're used to run your Visual Studio via shortcut with 'Run as administrator' checkbox marked, double check it is indeed still selected. For some reason mine had unchecked itself resulting in inability to load an IIS project. I was 100% sure my VS had these administrative privileges as usual, which made me try all the Internet proposed solutions except for the most obvious one.
Restarting Visual Studio worked for me.

Strange LocalHost Behaviour for ASP.NET 4.0 site

I have a folder MyWebSite. I open it in Visual Studio 2010 and browse using the local webserver. It runs fine.
Now when I create a copy of the folder, open the website in Visual Studio and try to run it from there, it says:
This page can't be displayed. Make sure the web address http://localhost:21926 is correct.
What seems to be the problem?
Create a separate application pool and virtual directory for each. Your original site name is tied to a particular port because you are using the built-in server. Better to develop against IIS.
Please make sure you close Visual Studio and the instance of the ASP.Net Development server before you re-launch visual studio with the other folder.
In case you are trying to run both instances together, you might get such as error.
You could also try clearing the ASP.Net temporary folders and see if that solves the problem.

Debugging ASP.NET in IIS 7

I have searched all the usual but come up empty. I must be doing something silly!
Simply I created a new project, ASP.NET Web App, and wish to use and debug it with the local install of IIS 7.5 on my Windows 7 x64 box.
According to what I have read it should be a simple process; my issue is that Visual Studio will not stop at breakpoints nor at errors etc.
I just don't get it:
Visual Studio is attaching to the w3p process for me automatically.
If I hover over the breakpoints it shows a message saying the same, that it is in the same w3p process.
I am in Administrator context. I manually ran it like so to be sure but in any case if you are an admin it runs like that anyway.
Some notes:
I do not wish to use IIS Express as I require native IIS 7.5 for my tasks, however it does debug in express - no surprise there.
As mentioned above, all this is being done locally.
The path of the virtual directory is pointed towards the project files, as set by Visual Studio 2010. It even set the Network Service as read on the folder structure.
When debugging from VS the web site runs fine, just debugging is the issue.
Maybe it is permissions? The Default App Pool is using the ApplicationPoolIdentity not Network Service... Should it be? I had assumed they we.re one and the same essentially. Although I changed this and no luck unless I didn't do something I should of
Keep in mind here that my issue is semi-unique in that I am not receiving error messages, not even in the event logs... For all intents and purposes it should be working fine, just it isn't.
VS and IIS, and all updates, are applied to date.
Note: I'm familiar with IIS7.5, I run my own public web hosting server. I just never tried to debug
Note: It is Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
Thanks for your time.
Sigh!
I went back to basics... Uninstalled IISExpress and tested; It worked! Re-installed IISExpress; It worked!.
I guess installing IIS7 native after IISExpress did something screwy? I had ran the register ISS command on IIS7 when I installed it.
Right, so now I have both installed in tandem and they work fine. Thanks for all your help guys, appreciated.
you can try right-click on project in VS go to properties select web from left menu tab. Check if ASP.NET debugger is checked and also you can select Use Local IIS Server and give localhost url there (in project Url textbox) and then Say start debugging from VS and put breakpoints.
I had a similar issue the other day, I attached the debugger to the wrong w3p process, make sure you attach it to the one the app pool identity is running under.
I wanted to write it as comment by I don't think I can add pictures..
Are you sure you are running the same version of dll?
Is your breakpoint filled like this?
or hollow like this?
1st go to ,Program and Feature in control panel and then in that turn on or off windows features. and now check all check boxes(activate features) related to Internet Information server & windows service managers. once this is done run your visual studio as administrator and then attach to right w3p process.

weird asp.net 'Server cannot access application directory...' error

weird issue with visual studio 2010, right now i'm debugging a web application (which uses sitecore btw) and when entering in certain pages i get this error
Server cannot access application directory c:\svn\foo\trunk The directory does not exist or is not accessible because of security settings.
now the real fun part. c:\svn\foo\trunk is another asp.net project i worked on months ago on this same machine, with the same visual studio 2010, and they happen to both use sitecore too
besides those facts, the projects are absolutely not correlated. i deleted all the project files for foo eons ago
any idea what part of asp.net could be producing this error? what part does even know that i've used to work on this project?!
You may want to verify that your hosts file doesn't contain any strangeness, and likewise that your IIS instance doesn't contain any Applications that refer to your old codebase/directories.
Also, try running VS as administrator, and/or setting your user's permissions to admin rights.
If you are using a symbolic or junction link, make sure the folder that the symlink points to is still there.

page is not served because it has been explicitly forbidden - extension .asp may be incorrect

I'm trying to run a test version of a web using the File System (i.e. the "Cassini" web server built-in to Visual Studio 2005) rather than (IIS 5.1 on my Win XP dev PC). This web is a hodge-podge of classic ASP files written years ago and some new development in ASP.NET (VB.NET).
How can I get past this error message as it tries to go to /TestWeb/default.asp? -
Server Error in '/TestWeb' Application.
This type of page is not served.
Description: The type of page you have requested is not served because it has been explicitly forbidden. The extension '.asp' may be incorrect. Please review the URL below and make sure that it is spelled correctly.
Requested URL: /TestWeb/default.asp
Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.3603; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.3082
Things I have checked and previously encountered trying to get this mess working:
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\web.config
(has nothing for *.asp nor
HttpForbiddenHandler so nothing to
comment out).
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\machine.config
(has nothing for *.asp)
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\CONFIG\machine.config
(had a HTTPForbiddenHandler for
*.asp but I commented it out as per other postings advice; seemed to
have no effect for me though).
To get past an earlier error
("Request for the permission of type
'System.Web.AspNetHostingPermission'
failed"), I had to go to
"Administrative Tools > MS .Net
Framework 2.0 Configuration > My
Computer> Runtime Security Policy >
change Local Intranet to Full Trust.
To get past an earlier error ("the
network bios command limit has been
reached") I had to "enable a hot
fix" by adding the following DWORD
value at the following registry key:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\ASP.NET\FCNMode
and set the value to 1 (per MS KB
Article 911272).
This whole web has been placed on a file server in our LAN and from my desktop VStudio2005 views it via the mapped drive letter (e.g. V:\SVNwork\myFolder\TestWeb)
Visual Studio 2005 models this as a "web site" (not a "web application project").
The remainder of this post describes some background about why I am trying this:
We tend to recreate the web site on our dev PC's which run IIS 5.1 on Win XP. Movement of new stuff into production can be awkward using WinDiff and copying files as needed.
I'm trying to implement source control over this work. I've had a heck of a time trying to configure Visual SourceSafe 2005 and local IIS to work together smoothly (interestingly, I had pretty good luck putting "web application projects" under VSS2005 so I think it's related to the awkwardness of the ASP.NET 2.0 "site" model and VSS).
Anyway, I've moved a development version of this classic ASP and ASP.NET to a common file server in our LAN. Before placing this under Subversion control as a working copy of it's equivalent imported into a repository, I just want to make sure it can work with the Cassini web server. That's where I am stuck. The ultimate goal is have this under SVN and view differences with TortoiseSVN.
Thanks for reading this far...hopefully someone can get me past this error and then I can move forward with the SVN and TortoiseSVN work.
Cassini doesn't, as far as I can tell, support classic ASP. An alternative would be to run a local install of Apache (since you can't/won't use IIS) which will host ASP, but is probably asking for trouble.
See also: http://blogs.msdn.com/mikhailarkhipov/archive/2005/06/24/432308.aspx
You could also run local IIS, which will, of course, host both ASP.NET and classic ASP. Visual Studio can easily be configured to debug with a local IIS install.
Points for moving to subversion: we use the Microsoft stack (Visual Studio, ASP.NET, SQL Server) with subversion and it works very well.
Subversion comment
GRRR.. bosses are fun. The svn model is known as copy/modify/merge. The repository lives in a central location - probably your file server. Using the svn client - or a Visual Studio plugin like the excellent AnkhSVN - each developer gets a LOCAL working copy,makes their changes and performs a "commit" when they're done working on a file.
SVN takes care of making sure that developers don't overwrite each others changes, provides a facility for merging changes when someone has modified a file between when you got your last copy and when you commit your changes, etc.
The whole point of a working copy is that it isolates developers from each other. The merge/commit step takes care of intergrating everyones changes. Having a central working copy that everyone works from defeats the purpose.
This is a very different approach than that used by Visual SourceSafe, which is basically a file locking mechanism. The fact that SVN is a real client-server application (where VSS is simply a disk-based "database" with no server app to administer it) provides all sorts of capabilities. We check out, modify, commit, then publish from svn to a dev server.
Also, if I remember correctly, Cassini won't server apps from a mapped drive.

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