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I debug a site on the local IIS (localhost).

I use a tool (Gulp) to generate minified JS files directly from "dev" to the "dist" folder that is used by the server.

Gulp watches the dev/my.js file and once modified genetates the 

dist/my.min.js
dist/maps/my.min.js.map

This should permit to see directly the modifications on the server, without rebuilding/redeploying the entire site, there is need just to refresh the page...

The problem is the generated map file.. The local IIS thinks that this is a binary file change, and restarts/recycle the server once binary files are changed...

So in order to see my change is JavaScript I need to wait until the local server is refreshed (so it removes any advantage of generating files with GULP)...

Is there a way to say to IIS do NOT recycle itself when .map files are changed?

Hopefully for the .css files the trik works, because there is no map files associated with the .min.css files

serge
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I don't know of a way to disable the IIS refresh only for .map files only (this seems to be an all or nothing proposition), but in your site's web.config, go the httpRuntime element and add fcnMode="Disabled". So, you'd end up with a line looking like this:

<httpRuntime fcnMode="Disabled" />

What that does is tell IIS to stop looking for file changes in the site directory, which means that changes to no code and the web.config will be ignored until the site unloads. (Either via you manually starting/restarting or IIS shutting it down after a period of inactivity.)

ThatBlairGuy
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