Visual Studio 2013 sp1 hangs when trying to debug ASP.NET web site?

c# asp.net visual-studio-2013 webmatrix
Robert Oschler picture Robert Oschler · Mar 4, 2014 · Viewed 17.5k times · Source

Recently, Visual Studio 2013 started hanging again when trying to debug/trace an ASP.NET web site. The site was created with WebMatrix 3 but I don't think that is relevant.

VS2013 opens the web site Solution. It takes a really long time to load up. Once it does load up and I run the project, it hits my first breakpoint and then the IDE Window quickly shows "(not responding)" in the title bar and the IDE is now hung.

This happened to me a long time ago and the root cause was needing to set the "use 64-bit IIS" option as indicated by this SO post:

Visual Studio 2013 crashes and restarts every time I run my test solution

But I triple-checked and I do have the 64-bit option checked. What can I do to fix this?

Answer

JDennis picture JDennis · May 13, 2014

What worked for me was resetting visual studio. I got the suggestion from http://www.vosseburcht.com/?p=69

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