Visual Studio's internal development web server only listens for connections from the local computer.
Unfortunately, the web server only communicates with the IPv4 address :
127.0.0.1
On computers with IPv6 enabled (for example, Windows Vista, Window 7), it is not tied to an IPv6 address :
::1
When you click a game in Visual Studio or open a website from the notification area icon, the browser launches and tries to connect to " localhost ":
http:
localhost is not a real address, but an alias. In Vista and later, it is defined as:
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
::1 localhost
, -, , localhost, 127.0.0.1
- Visual Studio
::1
127.0.0.1
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