How to prevent Visual Studio from launching WcfSvcHost.exe while debugging?

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Morgan Cheng picture Morgan Cheng · Nov 12, 2008 · Viewed 10.7k times · Source

I have a solution in Visual Studio 2008 which has multiple projects. One of the projects is a WCF project. Sometimes I just want to debug other projects, but when I press F5, Visual Studio has wcfsvchost.exe launched to host the WCF project even it is not "StartUp Project".

Currently, every time I debugging other projects, I Have to Unload the WCF project to prevent the annoying WcfSvcHost.exe host pop up. However, it is not convenient. Anybody know better idea to prevent WCF project to be hosted in debugging mode?

Answer

aogan picture aogan · Nov 12, 2008

Go to WCF Options section in the property page of your WCF project and unselect the check box that says 'Start WCF Service Host when debugging another project in the same solution'.

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