Visual Studio 2015 can't start IIS Express

Question

When I am trying to run an ASP.Net Core project in Visual Studio 2015, a Microsoft Visual Studio dialog appears \"The project doesn\'t know how to run the profile IIS Expres

Answer 1

To clarify the answer from hultqvist, it is a problem with the xproj. To fix it, edit the xproj directly and change this

to this

That is, insert Web twice.

There is an associated issue in the aspnet tooling repo.