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ASP.NET Development Server restarting like crazy

January 28, 2008 00:51 by will
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Anybody ever see this before?  Every once in awhile in VS 2005 when I'm working on a web application project the ASP.NET Development Server goes nuts.  For every file I add, the server will be killed and will restart.  I say killed because it doesn't release its resources (i.e., the taskbar icon) prior to adios-ing.  Maybe its crashing? 

You can click the image to see the stupidity in better detail.  I'm not sure what gives with this.  Its extremely bad when checking in lots of work, because the same pattern of restarting for each file added to the solution gets magnified tenfold. 

I've done research on this sporadically but I haven't found any information or bug reports on it.  Has anybody seen this before?


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February 4. 2008 23:30

Josh Stodola

I have never noticed that bug in particular, but I can honestly say that the ASP.NET development server (aka Cassini) is a heap of garbage that I would love to discard. Sometimes it will not recognize any random CSS or Javascript change that I make. The first time I encountered this, I made a CSS layout change and it never took effect when I "played" the solution. I wasted 3 hours and pulled out more hair than I care to admit, all because the development server was not serving up a fresh copy of my stylesheet. When I right-clicked and stopped it, then re-ran my solution, my changes took effect as expected. I lost it. Thankfully, the monitor still works.

Josh Stodola

February 13. 2008 08:53

Will

Yeah, Cassini likes to hang around at inappropriate times and hold onto things like databases that you're trying to check in. I'm not yet at the point of saying it should be considered harmful, but it can be a pain in the ass sometimes.

Will

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