IIS Express Web Server Port Is In Use
You can change the port of the website from the website properties under the web ribbon, specifying a different port other than 3268.
Also a link from the Stackoverflow discusses the same scenario
Why and how to fix? IIS Express "The specified port is in use"
I was having these issues with specific projects.
For me,
- no website was running iin IIS Express
- nothing was using the port as determined by running:
netstat -ano
at the command line.
The solution was to run
netsh http add iplisten ipaddress=::
from the command line.
Happy days, and credit to: James Bryant! https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/110767/specified-port-is-in-use.html
1, firs click properties.
- Click web tab and in servers section change the port number. (simply increment or decrement the last digit
After that click "Create Virtual Directory" button. Then debug and run.
I hope this will solve your problem
The link that Krishna provided inspired me to open IIS and discover that there was a local web site in IIS with the same port (it was the same web service). I deleted that, and now I can debug my application again.
I cannot explain why I couldn't see the port in use, why it started offering the web page when the project was loaded in Visual Studio, and why I couldn't see that IIS was running in the task manager. I am guessing that Visual Studio was actually running it somehow.
Thanks to all respondents for their help!