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

Worked for me in VS2003 and VS2017 on Windows 8

1. Run the command in CMD with admin rights

   netsh http add iplisten ipaddress=::

2. Then go to regedit path [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HTTP\Parameters] and check if the value has been added.

For more details check https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/blogs/iis-express-failed-to-register-url-access-is-denied