Visual Studio Development Server using wrong port

Question

Related to a previous issue that I thought was resolved and actually isn\'t...

My Visual Studio 2008 installation may be a bit messed up, I think.

1. When

Answer 1

I also encountered the same error message:

Unable to launch Visual Studio development server because port [xxxx] is in use.

However, I do not have ESET installed. Instead, I had recently installed GlassFish server on my machine and that was causing the problem. Therefore, in Windows Task Manager, I killed the process it runs under which is java.exe and it fixed the problem.