Why can't I debug from Visual Studio 2005 after installing IE8?
- by tjrobinson
I've just installed IE8 (final) and restarted. I can no longer debug Web Application Projects using Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2. I get the message "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" and then WebDev.WebServer.exe quits with no visible error message and nothing in the Event Viewer.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Things that haven't helped:
Adding localhost to trusted sites
Changing the port to 8080 or 80
Checking my hosts file (it's just got 127.0.0.1 localhost in it)
Things that have helped a bit:
Running (not debugging) with CTRL-F5, which works fine (unless you need to debug)
Changing the default Visual Studio browser to Firefox, which allows me to debug
My hosts file contains:
# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
127.0.0.1 localhost
