Process with an id of “xxxx” is not running in Vis

Question

I am not able to run any application from Visual Studio 2013, It throws Process with an id of "xxxx" is not running message. I have used telerik also. I tried all solutions from internet (except reinstall visual studio), nothing helped me, Please help, Thank you.

Ps: WebForm base.

Answer 1

I got the same problem and I found a great way to cope this problem as following

1.Open your project file:
*.csproj
2.Try to find the lines shown below (by finding "DevelopmentServerPort" in your project file).

 <DevelopmentServerPort>62140</DevelopmentServerPort>    
 <DevelopmentServerVPath></DevelopmentServerVPath>    
 <IISUrl>http://localhost:62116/</IISUrl>     

3.When found, delete the below tags from your project file:

4.Save and close the file. If you had your project opened, you may be prompted to reload the project.

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Answer 2

I got same issue and explore project directory and remove this .vs hidden folder. If you cannot see this folder, go to your folder option, show all files and then remove this folder.
Close project and then clean and build then enter F5.

Answer 3

For me, using Visual Studio 2017, the tags mentioned in ali abid's answer were located in the csproj.user file.

However removing these tags did no solve my problem. For me, I had set up a virtual directory in the project properties with a low (9500) port number. I think some other process decided to use that port and was blocking my IIS Express from starting.

The solution was to edit the project properties, update Web --> Project Url to use a new port, and create a virtual directory.

Answer 4

I had the same problem and the solution was pretty simple.

1. close your solution.
2. reopen the solution as an admin.
3. rebuild it.
4. try now.

You may need to restart your machine. Don't delete any of the csproj file settings.

Answer 5

1. Open Visual Studio as an administrator
2. Right-click your project and click on Unload Project
3. Again, right-click your project and click on Edit PROJECT_NAME.csproj

4. Find the code below and delete it

   <DevelopmentServerPort>63366</DevelopmentServerPort>
   <DevelopmentServerVPath>/</DevelopmentServerVPath>
   <IISUrl>http://localhost:63366/</IISUrl>
   

5. Save and close the file

6. Right-click your project and reload it
7. See if it's working

Answer 6

The only think that worked for me was restartying Visual Studio completely.

I tried in vain to kill all suspended vstest.executionengine.exe processes and the vstest.discoiveryengine.exe using Process Explorer.