I haven't seen this happen too often, but one thing I do if I run into this is in your tray you should see the development server. you can right click that and end it. I am running windows 7 so i see that on the right side of my task bar if I expand the arrow.
Tim

>Hi
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>when I'm developing I'm running the site on the development server on my local machine.
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>Sometimes ihe localhost just seems to hang.. If I cancel the debug and then re run it (usually but not always) the problem is cleared.
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>Any good tips on what clearing up should be done between debugging runs.
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>Thanks