How to properly stop running dotnet core web application?

Question

In Visual Studio 2017 and 2019 on Windows, I run dotnet watch run in the Package Manager Console. It launched kestrel for a dotnet core app, automatically disabled text edit in the console, and displayed a red button to stop command execution, but the button doesn't do anything. Also, the message is being displayed to use Ctrl+C but it doesn't work either.

Now listening on: http://localhost:20436 Application started. Press Ctrl+C to shut down.

Now there is an error when I try to launch the web app in Visual Studio because it is already running. I couldn't find a command like dotnet stop only Ctrl+C which doesn't work in this case. I used Process Hacker to kill the dotnet.exe process but that doesn't seem right. What would be the best way to kill the running process?

Answer 1

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run your project:

dotnet run > Examplelog.log &

$ dotnet run > Examplelog.log &

[1] 162

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end your project:

kill 162

$ kill 162

[1]+ Exit 127 dotnet run > Examplelog.log

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So with kill[id] you can end your process.

you not need a second console and can use your console for other inputs (take note that all outputs will be stored inside the Examplelog.log-File you have to check)^^lg