“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

I just had this issue even though netstat did not show any conflicts.

The following fixed it for me:

1. Close Visual Studio
2. Open up File Explorer
3. Navigate to the folder of the offending project
4. Delete the obj and bin folders
5. Delete the *.user file (this is probably optional)
6. Restart Visual Studio and try again