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How to stop Visual Studio from adding IIS Express to launchsettings

So I've removed all entries about it from my launchsettings. Yet when I start my project in Visual Studio I can see the following with git diff

       },                                           
       "applicationUrl": "http://0.0.0.0:5001",     
       "useSSL": false                              
+    },                                             
+    "IIS Express": {                               
+      "commandName": "IISExpress",                 
+      "launchBrowser": true,                       
+      "environmentVariables": {                    
+        "ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT": "Development"    
+      }                                            
+    }                                              
+  },                                               
+  "iisSettings": {                                 
+    "windowsAuthentication": false,                
+    "anonymousAuthentication": true,               
+    "iisExpress": {                                
+      "applicationUrl": "http://localhost:53839/", 
+      "sslPort": 44389                             
     }                                              
   }                                                
 }

I can remove it, but it will reappear whenever I restart VS.

It started a couple of weeks ago, seemingly out of the blue (without me updating anything). I am now on the latest version and it's still a problem. Can't find anything about it either. Mostly just how to prevent the launchsettings from being created, not modified

Solution

  • Okay holy shit so I just figured this out!

    So when launching multiple projects there's this new setting called "Debug Target" seen here:

    enter image description here

    The two first in that list is the project itself, and IIS Express. Since it's blank it seems to default to starting IIS Express, and when I remove the entries from my launchsettings I can start it without. But if I set the "Debug Target" to my project, it never adds IIS Express!

    I think I never noticed it because I've only really opened that menu like once before "Debug Target" was a thing!