How do I stop the Development Server starting during Unit Testing?

Question

I have a Visual Studio 2008 solution that contains around 30 projects. Some of these are web services / WCF services / ASP.NET MVC applications.

When I run all unit tests (Ctr+R, A) it insists on spinning up all the Development Servers for these various projects. This means that it takes far too long to run the tests and, actually, none of my unit tests require these frameworks.

So, how do I stop Visual Studio doing this?

Answer 1

Click on the projects in your solution and bring up the properties window (F4).

Change Always start when debugging to false.