Initializing the applicationhost.config file failed. Cannot find IIS Express

Question

I recently installed the Visual Studio 2017 RC and created AngularJS SPA application. I had to uninstall the VS 2017 RC as it was hanging multiple times. Now, Whenever I try to open this SPA application using VS 2015 I get this error. Any help to resolve this would be helpful. Thank you.

Initializing the applicationhost.config file failed. Cannot find IIS Express

Answer 1

I had faced the same problem while trying to "Live Share" my web development project on the web browser. I was using the latest version of Visual Studio still I got this issue. Then I go to the Visual Studio Downloader to download the ASP.NET and web development Workloads which is available in the Workloads section. Here I had attached the image in which you can see in the details it is clearly written that Live Share is available. visual studio downloader where you can see the Live Share option

Answer 2

you can download IIS express from this link and install it

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48264

Answer 3

I have got the same issue. So I install the IIS Express from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48264

Then reload the solution. problem solved.

Answer 4

Follow this link :

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9Q8e7mRZ7_oaXRHX01yMUNPbUE

You need to modify the visual studio web services. The video shows how to modify VS. Modification depends on which type of template you are using that shows error. If its WCF, then you make web service updates during modification of VS.

Answer 5

I couldn't fix this issue, But I managed to resolve by Uninstalling and reinstalling the Visual Studio 2015.