Cannot open Web projects in Visual Studio 2013

Question

Yesterday I installed an update (Visual Studio 2013 Update 2) to Visual Studio 2013 and since then it has not worked properly.

The update was taking quite a long ti

Answer 1

This happens due to corrupt applicationHost.config file.

Instead of re-installing visual studio,

Go to C:\inetpub\history and copy applicationHost.config file to My Documents\IISExpress\config\

This should solve your problem.