Disable WCF Service Host

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While debugging a WCF project tonight, I was getting frustrated by a 5 second pause every time I started the app and a warning that my service contains no endpoints.  A couple quick searches kept mentioning a WCF Options tab in the project properties, but that tab doesn't exist that I've been able to find. 

Took some more searching, but I finally found the answer.

The fix is quite quick: just open the .csproj file for your WCF Service Library project in notepad and remove the following string.

{3D9AD99F-2412-4246-B90B-4EAA41C64699}

That will disable the WCF Service Host for your WCF Service Library project.