It certainly does on IIS Express. You have to disable edit & continue to get it to work. I'm not imagining this, it's a highly upvoted SO question: http://stac

It certainly does on IIS Express. You have to disable edit & continue to get it to work. I'm not imagining this, it's a highly upvoted SO question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19568762/how-can-i-prevent-visual-studio-2013-from-closing-my-iis-express-app-when-i-end http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19568762/how-can-i-preven... There's a whole list of things you still can't do while EaC is running. So you're going to have to stop it a lot, EaC might help when debugging or tweaking, but for new code you're going to have it off. They even confirm this stupid behaviour in this blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/07/11/enable-edit-and-continue-debugging-option-is-now-on-by-default-for-new-web-applications-in-vs2013-preview.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/07/11/enable-edi...