VS 2017 always times out debugging an MVC Core website on IIS Express profile

Question

On a plain vanilla, scaffolded ASP.NET Core MVC web app, with a DbContext registered in the DI container, whenever I hit F5 after 30-60 seconds, I get the error mes

Answer 1

It is hard to say if it is the same issue, but I had same symptoms when I was starting my current project. In my case, I found I either had to:

• Turn off Browser Link; or
• Use a browser other than Chrome as the startup browser.

It wasn't until I selected Microsoft Edge as the browser in the debug button of the toolbar and it worked fine that I realised what it might be, and I disabled Browser Link. It all starts up fine now.

If it is yet another issue, then best of luck.