Troubleshooting the built-in Visual Studio 2008 WebDev.WebServer.EXE?

There's a couple things that you can try. First, although you may have already tried this, is to ensure it is running. Check your task manager, to see if you can find it there.

Also, an icon should appear in your system tray. Secondly, once you've established that it is running, try connecting to it through telnet For your set up, you could use the following to connect using telnet telnet 127.0.0.1 52589 You can also try pointing firefox to localhost, or ::1 which is the IPV6 equivalent of 127.0.0.1.

There's a couple things that you can try. First, although you may have already tried this, is to ensure it is running. Check your task manager, to see if you can find it there.

Also, an icon should appear in your system tray. Secondly, once you've established that it is running, try connecting to it through telnet. For your set up, you could use the following to connect using telnet.

Telnet 127.0.0.1 52589 You can also try pointing firefox to localhost, or ::1 which is the IPV6 equivalent of 127.0.0.1.

Tried the 3rd thing with the same result as localhost:52589 will try the telnet. If the webserver is running what name does it use in the processes? – brunot Jul 21 '09 at 1:25 I believe you will see WebDev.WebServer.

EXE in the process list. Also, of note is that the web server doesn't start until you try to debug. If you stop debugging, sometimes it shuts down (I find that XP Shuts down while Vista keeps it running).

If you've just started visual studio without running the debugger. Also, see this question about running cassini from the command line (stackoverflow. Com/questions/256401/857179#857179) – Kibbee Jul 21 '09 at 2:42 arghh Telnet not installed.

Got to figure out how to solve that now. – brunot Jul 21 '09 at 18:58 ok. Got that installed and it failed with the message - Connecting To localhost...Could not open connection to the host, on port 52589 : Connect failed – brunot Jul 21 '09 at 19:13 go to that link I posted in my previous comment and try to run cassini from the command line to see if you get any error messages.

– Kibbee Jul 21 '097 at 1:17.

If you hover over the system tray icon for Cassini, the tooltip will give you the correct port. You can also right click on the icon and select Open in Web Browser.

My first feeling is that it could be the port number. If you have the project setup to 'Auto-assign Port' I would change it to a specific port, and vice-versa.

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