I have been working on the first MVC 5 code project for several months and (apparently) out of nowhere, Visual Studio refuses to debug and give me some strange errors.
When I try to launch the application Ctrl + F5 , it builds fine, but the browser never goes beyond the download limits, I still have pinwheel on the browser tab, but the application never loads.
When I try to debug applicaiton F5 , it builds fine, but then 2 errors appear, firstly, Debugging information for iisexpress.exe cannot be found or does not match. Cannot find or open the PDB file. Debugging information for iisexpress.exe cannot be found or does not match. Cannot find or open the PDB file. and then Process with an Id of xxxx is not running .
I tried to download characters from MS ( https://stackoverflow.com/a/165268/ ) using a different database name, uninstalling VS extensions, performing all Windows updates, restoring VS installation and even completely reinstalling VS. Nothing seems to help.
I am not very good at PDB files, but I did nothing to change this, and they seem to be in the right place:
I'm running out of ideas, but I really want to avoid reinstalling Windows if possible.
This only happens in this project, so the problem seems to be related to the project itself, and not to the installation. But I don’t know where to start debugging this problem or looking for a solution.
Perhaps relevant
I tried running the application in the user domain (configured in the hosts file and IIS Express ApplicationHosts.config file). In an attempt to solve this problem, I returned these settings back to the default localhost:[port] . It didn't seem to make any difference, but I thought I should mention it just in case.