Visual Studio shows blank page when web application is run

Question

I've had an occasional issue with my laptop where the power instantly cuts out - without the machine shutting down properly. This happened a couple of times yesterday while I was working on a project in VS 2013. Since then when I try to run the project the browser loads and the name of the start up page appears in the url box but it just shows a blank page.

Before, the page loading icon in the Chrome tab would swirl for a while as it was loading, but now it hardly does that at all, as if it's not even trying to load the page.

Some extra info:

• I tried setting a different starting page - same result.
• I put a break point in the page load code - it doesn't get hit.
• If I view the source of the blank it is completely empty, not even tags
• Other projects seem to work find still.
• I'm using VS 2013 on Windows 7.
• Tried deleting the temp asp.net files (c/windows/microsoft.net/framework64/v4.0.30319/Temporary ASP.NET Files) but curiously this folder is already empty - I'm sure this is what I've done with problem projects before - although I've never seen this particular problem.
• I'm running on IISExpress and have tried all browsers and running without debugging with the same result.

Has anyone seen this problem before? Any ideas??

Thanks

Answer 1

I had the same problem as well. Suddenly when I launch my MVC web application from Visual Studio 2013, the browser comes up and the app is running, but the browser displays blank, no url and does not even try to load the page. In Visual Studio, none of the Script Documents are loaded either.

Simply by setting a breakpoint in Global.asax.cs, Application_start, everything went back to normal, problem solved.

Answer 2

I had the same problem. Solved it by adding a break point at Application_Error function in Global.asax.cs. Then I was able to see the real problem. It was because of some conflicting dlls.