iisexpress hangs when starting MVC project

Question

Given

• Visual Studio 2015 Update 1
• Target Framework .NET Framework 4.5.2
• System.Web.Mvc version 5.2.2.0

When I start my website project (F5)

Then

• The website loads in the web browser and the web browser keeps loading.

Tried and no difference:

• CTRL+F5 (start without debugging)
• Disables browser link
• Disabled anti-virus
• Start with Chrome

Workaround:

• kill iisexpress.exe
• then it works for one debugging session

What Process Monitor tells me when I view iisexpress.exe activity:

There's an infinite loop of the following registry activity:

13:04:58,7285089 iisexpress.exe 11816 RegQueryKey HKLM SUCCESS Query: Name 13:04:58,7285345 iisexpress.exe 11816 RegOpenKey HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services.NET Memory Cache 4.0\Performance REPARSE Desired Access: Maximum Allowed 13:04:58,7285611 iisexpress.exe 11816 RegOpenKey HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services.NET Memory Cache 4.0\Performance SUCCESS Desired Access: Maximum Allowed, Granted Access: All Access 13:04:58,7285803 iisexpress.exe 11816 RegSetInfoKey HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services.NET Memory Cache 4.0\Performance SUCCESS KeySetInformationClass: KeySetHandleTagsInformation, Length: 0 13:04:58,7285984 iisexpress.exe 11816 RegQueryValue HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services.NET Memory Cache 4.0\Performance\Library SUCCESS Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ, Length: 72, Data: %systemroot%\system32\netfxperf.dll 13:04:58,7286241 iisexpress.exe 11816 RegQueryValue HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services.NET Memory Cache 4.0\Performance\Library SUCCESS Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ, Length: 72, Data: %systemroot%\system32\netfxperf.dll 13:04:58,7286498 iisexpress.exe 11816 RegQueryValue HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services.NET Memory Cache 4.0\Performance\IsMultiInstance SUCCESS Type: REG_DWORD, Length: 4, Data: 1 13:04:58,7286750 iisexpress.exe 11816 RegQueryValue HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services.NET Memory Cache 4.0\Performance\IsMultiInstance SUCCESS Type: REG_DWORD, Length: 4, Data: 1 13:04:58,7287001 iisexpress.exe 11816 RegQueryValue HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services.NET Memory Cache 4.0\Performance\First Counter NAME NOT FOUND Length: 144 13:04:58,7287169 iisexpress.exe 11816 RegCloseKey HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services.NET Memory Cache 4.0\Performance SUCCESS 13:04:58,7287547 iisexpress.exe 11816 RegQueryKey HKLM SUCCESS Query: HandleTags, HandleTags: 0x0 13:04:58,7287790 iisexpress.exe 11816 RegQueryKey HKLM SUCCESS Query: Name 13:04:58,7288042 iisexpress.exe 11816 RegOpenKey HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services.NET Memory Cache 4.0\Performance REPARSE Desired Access: Maximum Allowed 13:04:58,7288303 iisexpress.exe 11816 RegOpenKey HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services.NET Memory Cache 4.0\Performance SUCCESS Desired Access: Maximum Allowed, Granted Access: All Access 13:04:58,7288494 iisexpress.exe 11816 RegSetInfoKey HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services.NET Memory Cache 4.0\Performance SUCCESS KeySetInformationClass: KeySetHandleTagsInformation, Length: 0 13:04:58,7288676 iisexpress.exe 11816 RegQueryValue HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services.NET Memory Cache 4.0\Performance\Library SUCCESS Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ, Length: 72, Data: %systemroot%\system32\netfxperf.dll 13:04:58,7288933 iisexpress.exe 11816 RegQueryValue HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services.NET Memory Cache 4.0\Performance\Library SUCCESS Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ, Length: 72, Data: %systemroot%\system32\netfxperf.dll 13:04:58,7289194 iisexpress.exe 11816 RegQueryValue HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services.NET Memory Cache 4.0\Performance\IsMultiInstance SUCCESS Type: REG_DWORD, Length: 4, Data: 1 13:04:58,7289446 iisexpress.exe 11816 RegQueryValue HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services.NET Memory Cache 4.0\Performance\IsMultiInstance SUCCESS Type: REG_DWORD, Length: 4, Data: 1 13:04:58,7289693 iisexpress.exe 11816 RegQueryValue HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services.NET Memory Cache 4.0\Performance\First Counter NAME NOT FOUND Length: 144 13:04:58,7289866 iisexpress.exe 11816 RegCloseKey HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services.NET Memory Cache 4.0\Performance SUCCESS 13:04:58,7290239 iisexpress.exe 11816 RegQueryKey HKLM SUCCESS Query: HandleTags, HandleTags: 0x0

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Answer 1

UPDATE: this was only a temporary workaround, the problem is back.

WORKAROUND: kill iisexpress.exe process before restarting the IDE

This was caused by updating to Tools (1.2) and Windows 10 SDK (10.0.10586)

Workaround: uninstall.

Steps to uninstall

1. Go to Programs and Features
2. Find the Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 entry, click Change

3. Uncheck Tools (1.2) and Windows 10 SDK (10.0.10586)
4. Click update