Local IIS hangs after VS.NET build

Question

I have an ASP.NET web application that occasionally hangs after I build it. It is intermittent and there is no pattern to this. When I try to access it afterwards, IE just waits for IIS to respond, which it doesn't do, unless I restart IIS.

This is on my local machine, running Vista Ultimate x64, VS 2008, 1 web application, 8 additional class libraries.

--UPDATE--

In the System log, there's an entry for each time it's happened:

A worker process '8068' serving application pool 'MyCustomAppPool' failed to stop a listener channel for protocol 'http' in the allotted time. The data field contains the error number.

Event ID:5138 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc734995.aspx

Answer 1

Check the Windows Event Log to see what's wrong with your ASP.net worker process (might be having problems loading DLLs while the build isn't quite complete and rapid failures are causing the worker process to stop).

Answer 2

You could try putting some logging in the Application_Start, Application_Stop, Session_Start and Session_End events, to check if the web application is actually being hit.

Answer 3

Maybe a long shot, but if you have an antivirus software installed, try to disable its web checking feature. (If it has one.)

Answer 4

Make sure you have all of the available updates applied to your machine; including SP1.

Answer 5

I believe I have finally found a suitable answer.

Tess Ferrandez's post on hangs when loading the ASP.NET assemblies could be the problem:

http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2009/09/22/asp-net-case-study-hang-when-loading-assemblies.aspx

Sounds like the GC is getting confused and getting hung up.