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

visual-studio-2013 iis-express
Beslinda N. picture Beslinda N. · Oct 17, 2014 · Viewed 203.7k times · Source

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

Answer

theyetiman picture theyetiman · Sep 26, 2016

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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