How can I disable the IIS Express launch profile for ASP.NET Core?

Question

I\'m writing an ASP.NET Core app (on the full .NET Framework) that uses WebListener, rather than Kestrel.¹ I\'m using Visual Studio 2015 with Update 3, and \".NET Core 1.0.1

Answer 1

UPDATE:

The issue should be fixed with the latest release (update) of Visual Studio 2017.

Initial answer:

As mentioned in comments in ssmith answer, Visual Studio keeps restoring the settings on restart.

Since I could not find a better solution, I just denied the write permissions on launchsettings.json for Visual Studio. I left the instructions in my other answer for similar question, here is just a copy&paste:

1. Update your launchsettings.json for the last time.
2. Close Visual Studio.
3. Open security settings (right-click on launchsettings.json in Explorer -> Properties -> Security)
4. Click Advanced -> Change Permissions
5. Select "Authenticated Users" (or other user group under which Visual Studio is running on your machine) from the "Permissions entries" list and click Edit ->
6. Check Deny for "Create files / write data" permission.
7. Click OK in all open dialogs and warnings to save changes.
8. Reopen Visual Studio and see it fail to do it's update.

Hope it helps.