Unable to access the IIS metabase

Question

An ASP.NET web project loads with up the solution, but I get this error

The Web Application Project is configured to use IIS. Unable to access the IIS metabase. You do not have sufficient privilege to access IIS web sites on your machine.

How can this be solved?

Answer 1

Step 1: Close Visual Studio

Step 2: Go to Project Folder and find ".vs" folder Note: It may be hidden

Step 3: Delete ".vs" folder

Step 4: Open Project Again

Answer 2

Just try to access Visual studio as Admin right click and choose run as administrator. may fixes this problem. and take a look at this link for instructions on creating a shortcut.

Answer 3

I ran into this problem when I had copied a project to a new project. I opened the project file (.csproj) and removed the value from the IISUrl element:

from: <IISUrl>http://localhost:21222</IISUrl>

to: <IISUrl></IISUrl>

Answer 4

first uncheck internet information service from turn windows features on or off. then uninstall iis from your system and restart it. after restarting it install iis again from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=34679 and try to open again.

Answer 5

This may have nothing to do with registering ASP/IIS. The reason is exactly what the error message says: Visual Studio devenv.exe is not running with sufficient privileges to access the IIS process, and it needs to do this if your solution contains a web project whose Web settings say to use IIS rather than the VS dev server.

There are two solutions to your problem:

1. Run VS as an Administrator and reopen the solution/project.

2. Edit the web application's project file with a text editor and change this line from True to False:

    <UseIIS>True</UseIIS>
   

That will stop it using IIS and demanding higher privileges.

The reason VS demands Admin privileges is, I believe, because it will try and create the IIS web site for you on demand if it doesn't exist.

Answer 6

Just register your Web-project in your local IIS. All the settings you will find in *.csproj file. That works for me.