How can I stop Visual Studio running all my web services

Question

How to stop Visual Studio 2008 from automatically running my web services.

I have a large Visual Studio 2008 solution that contains a number of web app projects and also several wcf web services. I have set the solution to have only one startup project, yet when I right-click on the web app project and select "Debug" > "Start New Instance" there appear multiple WebDev.WebServer icons in the system tray. There is one for every web service in the project.

Note: My web app project does have one Web Reference, but not to any of the WCF web services that are being launched.

I want to be able to stop these un-wanted web services from running.

Answer 1

Eureka!

1. Click on the web service project.
2. Look at the "Properties" tab/window (Ctrl+W, P). For a web service you will see a property called "Always Start When Debugging" (which of course is set to True by default). NOTE: This is on the property sheet, not the property dialog for the project.
3. Set "Always Start When Debugging" = False for all the un-wanted web apps/ web services.

My solution builds and starts really quick now!

Answer 2

This isn't ideal, but I generally just right-click->unload them until I need them. They are still available in the solution (to reload on demand), but it avoids this launch niggle, and releases some resources (and makes "build solution" quicker etc).

Answer 3

Try right clicking on your SOLUTION.

Common Properties -> Startup Project -> Single Startup Project (and selecting the website only).

try that?