“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

In my case, doing the following did the trick:

• Delete the Site from .vs\\config\applicationhost.config
• Delete the Site from Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config
• Delete the IISUrl from the .csproj

When I restarted Visual Studio, it assigned the project a completely new port number and ran perfectly