visual studio: attach debugger without starting web debugging

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I have a visual studio solution with a half dozen web application projects. I often want to attach the debugger to a process. When I do this, visual studio always wants to start up cassini or IIS express or do something to run the web applications in the solution. Is there a way I can skip that, so when attaching to a process visual studio does not try to start the web applications in the current solution?

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Are you using Tools, Attach to process? Perhaps after starting to debug a project e.g. F5 or Debug, Start Debugging? I just tried Tools, Attach to process with 1 web project, no dev servers started and VS didn't start anything extra. – James McLachlan
I am using "Tools -> Attach to process". Do you know specifically whether that was that a web site or web application project? – Frank Schwieterman
Good catch! It was a web application project (e.g. File, New Project, ASP.NET Web Application). I tried with a Web Site and VS2010 still didn't start the dev web server. This is a head scratcher. I upvote your question while I think and play around in VS. – James McLachlan
Its strange you don't see this problem as I've had several people try this and they see the debug servers start no matter what process they attach to. Maybe I need to try to isolate the issue more. – Frank Schwieterman

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On the project properties, there's a setting called "Development Server" -> "Always Start When Debugging." Might be worth a shot.

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