asp.net waiting for localhost forever

Question

Suddenly this morning I turned on my computer and launched visual studio... And no matter what I tried and whether I run or debug, and whatever the browser is ( chrome / fir

Answer 1

I had a similar issue where my site got "Waiting for" forever. Tried restarting the website and nothing.

I was not able to reboot the machine (I am pretty sure that it would solve) so I kept investigating what could be.

I found out that, in my case, the solution was to change the "Application Pool" of the website. It appears that the current one crashed or something like that (I was able to stop it but not start it back again), so I created a new Application Pool and the site started working again.