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I get the following error pretty regularly when compiling in Visual Studio and running my web application:
‘Unable to start debugging on the web server. The web server did not respond in a timely manner. This may be because another debugger is already attached to the web server.’
Normally this is after having debug the application once already. From the command line I run ‘iisreset /restart’ and it fixes the problem.
How do I prevent this from happening in the first place?
I find that this happens if I’m debugging with Firefox as my browser. When I exit Firefox the VS2005/8 debug session doesn’t terminate. I have not found a solution for this (yet).
If this is what’s happening with you then a quicker solution than running iisreset is to hit Shift-F5 when in Visual Studio and this will terminate the current debug session. You can then hit F5 and this will start a new debug session.