What is the main reason for Visual-Studio to assign (auto-assign) a new port number to the development server?
What is the main reason for Visual-Studio to assign (auto-assign) a new port number
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What is the main reason for Visual-Studio to assign (auto-assign) a new port number to the development server?
By using a random port way above the so-called well-known ports there’ll be less change for the port to be in use by another application.
Visual Studio randomizes the port on project creation:
But if the port is in use when starting to debug the project, it’ll auto-assign a new random, free port.
See here how to alter this behaviour and manually assign a static port number.