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

Question

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 tim

Answer 1

I had the same problem, and what needed to be done was setup IIS Express properly.

I right clicked on my project Properties => Web (tab) and on Servers: Project URL was already pre-populated and I clicked the button "Create Virtual Directory".

I had just reinstalled (refreshed) windows and the IIS was not setup b/c it was new.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Same error Process with an ID #### is not running using visual studio 2015 RC.

Only go rid of the message after repair IIS 10 in Control Panel - Programs and Features

Renato

Answer 3

Easily solved:

1. Open Visual Studio as an administrator
2. Right-click your project and click on 'Unload Project'
3. Again, right-click your project and click on 'Edit PROJECT_NAME.csproj'

4. Find the code below and delete it:

   <DevelopmentServerPort>63366</DevelopmentServerPort>
   <DevelopmentServerVPath>/</DevelopmentServerVPath>
   <IISUrl>http://localhost:63366/</IISUrl>
   

5. Save and close the file .csproj

6. Right-click your project and reload it
7. See its working

Answer 4

For me, none of the other solutions worked. The things I tried:

• Updating and patching everything associated with Visual Studio
• Reinstalling Visual Studio
• Reinstalling IIS Express
• Several reboots
• Adding the _WORKAROUND thing to the PATH
• Renaming the IIS folder under documents to regenerate the IIS config
• Manually editing the csproj file and removing the whole IIS settings section
• Changing the IIS executable usage to 64bit in VS settings
• Changing the port of IIS in the projects settings

After checking if the problem was persistent over different projects, it turned out that the problem only occurred in one specific projects. I figured that I had to delete all the user specific files in the solutions folder (such as bin, obj, *.suo, ...) I just deleted the whole solution folder and reverted the files in git.

TLDR: Try deleting user specific files/folders like bin, obj, *.suo, ...

Answer 5

Reboot your computer before trying any of these!

Some of these may be helpful. Doing the netstat trick

netstat -ano | find

helped me as another application was using my port, but didn't completely solve my problem. IIS Express still kept crashing. It wasn't until I rebooted my win 10 PC (first time in over a week), that my problem completely cleared up.

Answer 6

I had the same problem. Just restarting Visual Studio worked for me.