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Visual Studio 2013 crashes and restarts every time I run my test solution. When I hit F5 IIS Express starts, the solution builds successfully but after that a dialog box comes up saying Visual Studio is not responding and looking for a solution and then restarts itself.

I tried re-installing IIS express, Visual Studio 2013 but no good.

It is a blank solution and I have not added any code.

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I think I figured out how to fix the issue:

Go to:

Visual Studio 2013 -> Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> Web Project -> Use 64 bit version of IIS Express

for websites and projects has to be checked if you are using a 64 bit machine.

Mike G
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  • I had the same Problem, but not with a Web-Project. to reproduce it, i just need to start visual studio 2013 and close it... it will always crash and start again. this solution solved it! win 8.1 x64 THANKS! – Steven Spyrka Aug 17 '14 at 16:18
  • That was spot on! Thanks for the fix. – nembleton Nov 03 '14 at 15:10
  • Thanks bro! how did you come to this? – Guilherme Ferreira Mar 25 '15 at 14:37
  • Honestly I don't remember. But I remember finding some hint in one of the tech forums. – Ankit Vora Mar 26 '15 at 20:40
  • @StevenSpyrka How did this solution fix it if you had the problem with non-web projects and the solution is related to web projects? – Matthew May 12 '15 at 22:38
  • I am working on NopCommerce, I did the same setting , but when i start debugging(after 64 bit) i get error of No database instance. But when i rollback settings then it again started working but same crash error ! Any other solution is there ? – Ashitosh birajdar May 24 '16 at 11:25
  • It worked for me for a few hours. Started facing the same issue now. Upvoted the answer too soon :D – Pallavi Oct 20 '16 at 21:00