IIS Express crashes when starting a site from visual studio

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Joshua Barron picture Joshua Barron · May 22, 2015 · Viewed 56.6k times · Source

I started encountering this problem after installing the Visual Studio 2015 RC; I am no longer able to debug web projects from Visual Studio 2013.

My projects build fine and VS launches a browser - I can see in my output that iisexpress.exe loads all the relevant DLLs for the project, but then right when I would expect to see my website, iisexpress.exe stops running and Visual Studio stops debugging. All the output Window tells me is this:

The program '[3724] iisexpress.exe: Program Trace' has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The program '[3724] iisexpress.exe' has exited with code -532462766 (0xe0434352).

Looking in the event viewer I see the following crash info for iisexpress.exe:

Faulting application name: iisexpress.exe, version: 8.0.8418.0, time stamp: 0x4fbaa9e8
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.1.7601.23040, time stamp: 0x553e86a2
Exception code: 0xe0434352
Fault offset: 0x0000c44d
Faulting process id: 0x1b40
Faulting application start time: 0x01d094d5c74c69d5
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS Express\iisexpress.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\syswow64\KERNELBASE.dll

I've tried reinstalling IIS, deleting my local IISExpress folder, and still no luck. Anybody have an idea how I can get IIS running again?

Answer

kernowcode picture kernowcode · Feb 28, 2017

In your project folder find the hidden .vs folder and delete it. This solved the problem for me.

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