I can no longer debug with VS2008 after installing Vista SP1.  I get the following error dialog:

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Microsoft Visual Studio
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Unable to start debugging on the web server. Unable to connect to the web server. Verify that the web server is running and that incoming HTTP requests are not blocked by a firewall.

Click Help for more information.
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OK   Help  
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I've added VS2008 to the exceptions list in Windows Firewall -- No Joy... I even turned off Windows Firewall: No Joy!

 WAIT -- All my websites are stopped.  When I try to start them, I get an error saying that some windows services need to be started.  Hmmm. They are set to "automatic" bu they are not started (specifically: World Wide Web Publishing Service).  Ok, start it.  Voila! I'm debugging again!  Hope this helps someone else out....

 Cheers,

I was able to re-start the firewall and still be able to debug. It was the services not started that caused the problem....

Thanks ojm37!

I had the same debugging problem after installing SP1 for Vista.  I then went to services and started the World Wide Web Publishing Service as suggested.  That fixed the problem.  I was able to debug in VS2008.

I then rebooted to see if the problem would reoccur.  It did not.

John 

 

Thanks, I just had the same problem except that the world wide web publishing service was started OK. When I went and checked in IIS manager though, the default website was stopped for some reason. I restarted it again and everything's fine! (except the bugs in my app of course).