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Unable to manage startup projects in Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2012 won't let me install multiple startup projects.

I tried:

  • Right click on solution / Set Projects StartUp ...

    Result: nothing happens.

  • View / Property Pages

    Result: Popup "Object reference not set to object instance".

I have no add-ons and have disabled all extensions that can be disabled without uninstalling. Active extensions

  • Microsoft Web Developer Tools
  • NuGet Package Manager
  • Visual Studio Extensions for Windows Library for JavaScript (1.0.8377.0 and 1.0.9200.20512
  • VisualSVN

Is this a known issue? Is there a fix / workaround? Can I specify startup projects by editing the .sln / .csproj file if VS2012 UI keeps failing?

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I'm sure it has something to do with NuGet Package Manager

. I did as described here .

Removed NuGet Package Manager in Tools => Extensions and Updates...

and relaunched Visual Studio 2012 / Visual Studio 2013 Preview. Now I can happily tweak solution properties again!

Installed NuGet Package Manager

again and the problem reappeared. :(



This is a palliative answer. If there is a definitive answer, please share it! :)

Make sure you vote on this Connect Bug .

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Found this post looking for a related issue I was having. I thought it would be helpful to let others know what I found.

My problem was trying to switch between running projects, IIS Express always loaded the same project. My solution was to edit project properties> Web> assign a different port number for each project. Now when I select Set as StartUp Project ... it actually works



Note ** I didn't have any problems with NuGet, probably because I am using the 2013 released version

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