Visual Studio 2017 Error --Cannot connect to runtime process

Question

I am getting this error whenever I try to debug my project from visual studio.

I tried adding these settings to launchSettings.json but still no difference.

"protocol": "legacy", "runtimeArgs": [ "--debug=5858" ], "restart": true, "port": 5858,

what I am I doing wrong here.Any suggestions to resolve this ?

Answer 1

I used to receive similar error. Every time I tried to debug the process was crashing, this was related to javascript debugging.

inside Debug -> Options you can disable it.

Just uncheck the highlighted one:

Answer 2

Make sure to disable JavaScript debugging.