When I click the "stop" debugger button, the developer web server also stops!

Question

Does this happen to any one of you? It is driving me crazy:

On every other machine I develop on, when I click the "stop" button for the debugger in Visual Studio, the Developer Web Server continues to run. And I can still browse my web application.

Suddenly one day, on one of the machines I use for development, it no longer behaves this way. Now when I click stop, the Developer Web Server also stops.

Does anyone know what causes this? Did i accidentally flip some setting I don't know about?

Answer 1

The best way around this is to run without debugging (CTRL + F5). This leaves the web server up and running. If you hit debug after that it will do the debugging bit on a separete instance of the web server, leaving the original instance up and running too.

See this similar question on SO

Answer 2

One alternative is to configure your local site to use IIS; that would allow you to easily switch between using the debugger and not using it.