Prevent iisexpress from running the websites in a solution when the startup app is a console app

Question

I have a solution with a number of projects in it. Even if I set the web project\'s start options to:

1. Don\'t open a page. Wait for a request from an external a

Answer 1

To extend @Aleksey L.'s answer, you can actually do this with a plain text editor like Notepad.

In your projectname.csproj.user file, make sure your the AlwaysStartWebServerOnDebug node has a value set to False.

projectname.csproj.user

  
  
    
      
        
            ..          
          False
            ..          
        
      
    
  

Alternatively, to do this without a text editor you can use Powershell

$file = 'projectname.csproj.user'
$x = [xml] (Get-Content $file)
$x.Project.ProjectExtensions.VisualStudio.FlavorProperties.WebProjectProperties.AlwaysStartWebServerOnDebug = 'False'
$x.Save($file)