How to run just one ASP.NET Development Server in Visual Studio 2008?

Question

I have several web application projects in one solution. When I start debugging one of those web applications I noticed that the ASP.NET Development Server starts for all web applications in my solution. How can I determine to just one ASP.NET Development Server to be started? Is this even possible?

I don't want to have my system tray filled with icons of all my web applications.

Thanks!

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Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/127093/why-do-vs2008-spawn-one-cassini-for-each-web-site-application-when-going-into-deb

Answer 1

As far as I am aware you can't stop this behaviour and is by design.

This because of the way that VS attaches its debugger to target processes. i.e. you couldn't have two instances of VS attaching to the same process. Hence multiple instances of the cassini web server, one for each VS session.

HTH
Kev

Answer 2

This might work for you, I have a similar issue since there are several web remoting projects in my solution. What I did was set up virtual directories for each in IIS then just right-click the each project and select properties. On the Web tab I then set the server to use when debugging to IIS. This causes Visual Studio to use the single instance of IIS instead of opening a dozen separate web development servers for each project. When you debug, attach to w3wp.exe processes.

Answer 3

See also this question.

Answer 4

Thanks for the input. My thought is thats made by design.

Thanks for the answers :)