asp.net-development-serv

Unable to launch the ASP.NET Development server because port ‘1900’ is in use

December 21, 2023 by Tarik

Simply end all Webdev.WebServer.exe processes – did the trick for me. Occasionally this ‘unable to launch because port is in use’ error happens when one of the visual studio processes (webdev.webserver.exe) is still running and locked. The webdev.webserver process(s) should end when you close your browser or app but if they dont (for instance my … Read more

Asp.net MVC page is giving Mime type warnings for image files

April 16, 2023 by Tarik

Are you running your site from Visual Studio’s built-in web server? Apparently, you don’t have much control over the MIME types in that environment (see this). I was seeing the same behavior and was starting to stress about it before finally realizing that I wasn’t even looking at the IIS-hosted application.