Development Tip: No SharePoint Site exists at the specified URL – Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint

If you use Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint to develop a webpart or feature (example: event handler) and you want to deploy the web part or feature from within Visual Studio, the VSE will try to deploy to port 80 on the local server as default.
If you want to move your code to another server or if you want to deploy your code to a web application on a different port you will get the following error when you deploy:


Error Message : “No SharePoint Site exists at the specified URL”



What you need to do is very straight forward:
In Visual Studio, go to Project , then Properties, select the Debug tab and change the "start browser with URL" to point your sharepoint website on the appropriate port.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Now your solution should deploy fine.