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 recently had the same issue with VS 2013 and IIS Express:

"Process with an ID #### is not running ." // every time there is different ID number showing.

Here was the solution I found that worked for me:

1) Go into the Documents -> IIS Express -> config -> applicationhost.config

2) I opened applicationhost.config in Notepad++

3) Under the tag , there are lines of code that looks like this:

4) Remove these two lines

5) Change the END of the first line to

Notice that all I did was close the tag by adding ' /' after "true".

I am now able to run my projects in a web browser AND debug my code.

Also, I had updated to Update 4, but was having the same issue. I believe appending the applicationhost.config file was what fixed the problem.

I hope this helps!