“Unable to launch the IIS Express Web server.” in Visual Studio

Question

I attempted to run my web service through visual studio. I faced an issue like :

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Answer 1

After updating Windows 10 and/or Visual Studio 16+ it might happen due to an internal bug that IISExpress fails to register any development website because it no longer accepts localhost connections.

To fix the issue, you just have to register again the binding. To do so, run from an administrative shell the following command:

netsh http add iplisten ipaddress=::