How to solve “Microsoft Visual Studio (VS)” error “Unable to connect to the configured development Web server”

Question

PROBLEM

If you start using \"Microsoft Internet Information Services Express (IIS)\" from \"Microsoft Visual Studio (VS)\" you may get when you run

Answer 1

Solution 1

If you use a newer version of Visual Studio, you may not have this problem. I'm currently using Visual Studio 2015 and it works great.

Solution 2

You can solve this problem by changing the project's port number.
Because the reason is a port number conflict with some other application.

I had the same issue and fixed by doing that (by changing the port number).
I had solved this here : Changing project port number in Visual Studio 2013

If you use a different version of Visual Studio; you may also change the port number by project's Properties Window in Solution Explorer.