Visual Studio debugger, do not stop the website on stopping debugging

Question

In previous versions of visual studio (or some settings that I set years ago), when I stopped debugging the web application, the actual instance of IIS express will continue to work. I really like this behavior, as it means that the site is always up and running while I edit my code / recompile ect.

Since upgrading to VS 2013, this no longer happens when I stop debugging, it also stops the IIS express application pool.

Does anyone know if there is anywhere to change this behavior?

Answer 1

One of the changes in VS2013 is the inclusion of default editing and continuation in web application projects. When you activate Edit and Continue, the VS debugger uninterestingly connects to the web server process (for example, IIS Express). When you stop the debugger, it also kills the IIS Express process. If E&C is turned off, the debugger does not use an invariant connection, which allows the debugger to stop without losing the connected process.

This can be found in the project properties on the Web tab in the Debuggers section.