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I have a visual studio solution with a half dozen web application projects. I often want to attach the debugger to a process. When I do this, visual studio always wants to start up cassini or IIS express or do something to run the web applications in the solution. Is there a way I can skip that, so when attaching to a process visual studio does not try to start the web applications in the current solution?

Frank Schwieterman
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  • Are you using Tools, Attach to process? Perhaps after starting to debug a project e.g. F5 or Debug, Start Debugging? I just tried Tools, Attach to process with 1 web project, no dev servers started and VS didn't start anything extra. – James McLachlan Nov 01 '11 at 16:52
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    I am using "Tools -> Attach to process". Do you know specifically whether that was that a web site or web application project? – Frank Schwieterman Nov 01 '11 at 21:05
  • Good catch! It was a web application project (e.g. File, New Project, ASP.NET Web Application). I tried with a Web Site and VS2010 still didn't start the dev web server. This is a head scratcher. I upvote your question while I think and play around in VS. – James McLachlan Nov 02 '11 at 16:15
  • Its strange you don't see this problem as I've had several people try this and they see the debug servers start no matter what process they attach to. Maybe I need to try to isolate the issue more. – Frank Schwieterman Nov 02 '11 at 16:44

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On the project properties, there's a setting called "Development Server" -> "Always Start When Debugging." Might be worth a shot.

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Tom Lianza
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