Why and how to fix? IIS Express “The specified port is in use”

I had a similar issue running Visual Studio 2019 on Windows 10. Some solutions that worked for others seemed to include: Changing the application port number. Have Visual studio automatically assign a port number each time the application start. Restart Visual Studio Restart the computer. Unfortunately, none of these solutions worked for me, assigning another … Read more

How can I prevent the “You have mixed tabs and spaces. Fix this?” message?

Sounds like you have the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools 2013 installed. Go into its settings and turn off “Fix Mixed Tabs”… Tools -> Options -> Productivity Power Tools -> Turn Extensions On/Off If you have the default VS settings, tabs in the editor are converted to spaces. So (in theory) if you clicked Untabify … Read more