Visual Web Developer 2008 Express

Re: Unable to connect to the ASP.NET Development Server

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:17:32 GMT

You can't. Developmenr server is not available from outside the machine, it only listens on localhost.You may try using Cassini 2 instead http://www.ultidev.com/products/Cassini/

Re: Unable to connect to the ASP.NET Development Server

payonel — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:50:36 GMT

I am ABLE to connect to my localhost asp.net developer server -- but i'd like my 2nd dev sitting next to the machine to be able to connect.

In other words, I'd like another machine in the same NAT to be able to connect via http to my asp.net developer server. I'd like to do this to debug some issues I only see when running a client machine and a server machine on separate boxes. We are able to do it in practice by running our asp.net application on IIS, but I'd like to run the server process from within VS2008 so I can debug the issue in code.

Any advice would be GRAND!

-Payonel

Re: Unable to connect to the ASP.NET Development Server

pashaKasim — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:37:47 GMT

Good staff.

Re: Unable to connect to the ASP.NET Development Server

marko — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:13:07 GMT

Problem solved long time ago....

Re: Unable to connect to the ASP.NET Development Server

marko — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:11:39 GMT

I solved my problem long time ago,it was problem with my eset nod32 firewall,thanks for answering anyway....

Re: Unable to connect to the ASP.NET Development Server

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:27:37 GMT

Also, try setting a fixed, predefined port in project properties (properties window should have an option to switch off dynamic ports)

Re: Unable to connect to the ASP.NET Development Server

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:12:44 GMT

Marco, do you have VS 2008 SP1 installed?

Re: Unable to connect to the ASP.NET Development Server

pure.krome — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:41:38 GMT

I've only just skimmed this thread .. but i can't believe no one noticed that the ports where different!!!

Hope that helps, Marko Bozan.

-me-

Re: Unable to connect to the ASP.NET Development Server

ritcoder — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:03:05 GMT

Hi,

I'm having the same problem. Tried everything. Editing the hosts file, adding the webserver to a different port. Same thing.

I just created an asp.net ajax application.

I did nothing other that typing hello world on the default page

-> Hit f5 -> Waited for the asp.net webserver icon to show in the tray

-> waited for some 6 min and was greeted with a dialog - unable

PS: If I double click on the webserver icon in the tray and click on the link, the page loads fine. The issue is getting vs to load it

When I changed the port to 8010 using the guidance above I get the error message - The directory "XXX" does not exist.

I've checked my firewall settings and the webserver is not blocked.

Re: Unable to connect to the ASP.NET Development Server

mozaffar_amin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:56:42 GMT

Hi.

I had this problem too in my WinXP SP2. I had eset smart security and I have blocked my MSVS 2008 in its firewall's Interactive Mode.

I Fixed it in this way [There is no need to uninstall your smart security). :

1. Right Click on my ESET Icon in traybar.

2. Choose Advance Setup menu.

3. On the opened window on the left side choose Personal Firewall -> Rules and Zones.

4. On the Right side in the Zone and Rule editor part Click SETUP.

5. Select Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 -> Deny Communication for devenv.exe

6. Right Click on it and select EDIT

7. Set Direction to Both and Action to Allow.

8. Click OK.

Enjoy it.

Re: Unable to connect to the ASP.NET Development Server

marko — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:45:50 GMT

I solved my problem,I uninstalled my eset nod 32 security suite that was blocking him and now everything woks perfect...

Re: Unable to connect to the ASP.NET Development Server

spankster — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:13:01 GMT

I had the same issue w VS2008. My solution wasnt found on the web. After using sysinternals process monitor I found the path VS was using to execute the server was incorrect. I guess MS didnt take into account my system was a 64bit system. So I had to move my DevServer folder to C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\DevServer dir. In its present C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\DevServer it was usless since MS was looking in the wrong location.

I hope this saves some other poor sap the time it took me to figure it out.

Stue

Re: Unable to connect to the ASP.NET Development Server

natsr — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:48:43 GMT

Hi!

Finally I found the problem. I edited the hosts file which had an entry for local host like ::localhost. I commented this line out and it started working.

Re: Unable to connect to the ASP.NET Development Server

natsr — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:31:44 GMT

Hi!

I have Windows Vista Home Premium Edition. I installed VWD 2008 and after creating a test.aspx, I tried to start the server. I got this same error. Horrible!!! It is a killer. On my machine it connects to port # 49716. I tired spending several hours, googling and tried all options. I could not get the server running.

Any suggestions

Thanks

Re: Unable to connect to the ASP.NET Development Server

alphan — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:04:45 GMT

check your firewall settings maybe you forget to give permission