When I debug in Visual Studio, Firefox opens and that is annoying because of the hookups that Internet Explorer and Visual Studio have, such as when you close the Internet Explorer browser that starting debug opened, Visual Studio stops debugging. How can I get Visual Studio to open Internet Explorer instead without having to set Internet Explorer as my default browser?
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Scott Guthrie has made a post on how to change Visual Studio's default browser:
1) Right click on a .aspx page in your solution explorer
2) Select the "browse with" context menu option
3) In the dialog you can select or add a browser. If you want Firefox in the list, click "add" and point to the firefox.exe filename
4) Click the "Set as Default" button to make this the default browser when you run any page on the site.
I however dislike the fact that this isn't as straightforward as it should be.
Right-click on an aspx file and choose 'browse with'. I think there's an option there to set as default.
Also may be helpful for ASP.NET MVC:
In an MVC app, you have to right-click on Default.aspx, which is the only ‘real’ web page in that solution. The default page displays ‘Browse with…’
In the Solution Explorer, right-click any ASPX page and select "Browse With" and select IE as the default.
Note... the same steps can be used to add Google Chrome as a browser option and to optionally set it as the default browser.
Your project might not have aspx files since it might be another kind of web project.
However, if it has a ClientApp folder:
- go to the standard view of the Solution Explorer (Ctrl+Alt+L) where you can find your-project name solution (click on the folders icon at the top to be sure (saying "Solutions and Folders"))
- right-click on the ClientApp folder itself
- Browse with... will show up near the top (near View in Browser option), click on it and the browsers dialog shows up
- click on your preferred browser
- click on Set as Default
- click on Browse to confirm (this will open the browser you just chose on that folder)
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