Can't get the OWIN Startup class to run in IIS Express after renaming ASP.NET project file

Question

I\'ve got a situation where I needed to change the solution and project names within a OWIN-based WebAPI website. Everything worked great before this change, and to my knowl

Answer 1

I know this is old, but just wanted to add that I ran across this using a custom template. In my case I had a working solution with a startup, made it a template but the template didn't work.

Come to find out, it was because the new project had a space in its name. So adding

[assembly: OwinStartup(typeof(myProjectName.Startup))]

to my existing startup file fixed it.