VS2013 IISexpress issue

Question

i am just making my first project in Visual Studio 2013. But when i press f5 there is error on the visual studio console

The program '[5740] iisexpress.exe' has exited with code -1073741816 (0xc0000008) 'An invalid handle was specified'.

and browser is showing error

Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to localhost:1311

can anybody help me

Answer 1

vs2013 -> tool -> option -> project & solution-> web project -> use IIS Express 64

Hope this can help you!

Answer 2

This had me hung up for over a day. Our company just upgraded to Windows 8 and started causing this issue. During the upgrade a new Registry Key was added

HKCU\\Software\\Microsoft\\IIS Express

When I removed this key IIS Express would start successfully. The reason it was failing is because Visual Studio was getting paths confused for config files.