With Visual Studio / MVC, when clicking debug, it's always launched the local site as a new tab in my currently open Chrome window.
With the 2017.7 update, now it launches a new window every time.
Is there any way to change back to loading it into a tab? I don't like the "new Chrome window every time" behavior
Nevermind, just noticed a new answer in one of my previous questions covers this
How to stop browser closing automatically when you stop debugging on VS 2017
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I recently applied an update to Visual Studio Community 2022 (64-bit).
Current Version is 17.3.4
We still use Web Deploy for some legacy asp.net sites and the Web Publish Activity window is very useful for switching between dev and production environments.
After a recent Visual Studio upgrade I noticed that the Web Publish Activity window was not visible, so I reopened it via View -> Other Windows... and it appeared as expected in the lower window, as a new tab along with Output and Error List.
But after closing my project and reopening it, the Web Publish Activity window is missing again. I tested other windows like PowerShell and Bookmark Window and they ARE maintained after closing and reopening VS.
I also tried saving a new window layout with the Web Publish Activity window open and then reapplying that layout after a VS restart but that had no affect.
It is very annoying to have to go though multiple levels of the View menu to reopen this window every time I open this project.
Does anyone have any advice on how to keep this window locked/pinned?
Is Microsoft trying to "encourage" me to stop using this window?
If there is another way to quickly change between publish profiles that would be acceptable as well, but I cannot find one.
Thank you.
This may be a bug with this particular window (the fact that it doesn't stay pinned after closing Visual Studio that is).
Perhaps as a decent workaround you can at least assign a keyboard shortcut to open this window:
Go to Options → Environment → Keyboard
Filter down to "View.WebPublishAcitvity" or find it in the list
Create a keyboard shortcut of your liking by typing it in the circled red box and then click the Assign button:
After doing that, you should be able to use that shortcut to open the window much faster at least.
Visual Studio introduced a blocking Start Window instead of a non-blocking Start Page.
Considering how extensible Visual Studio is, is there a way to have VS2019 display a non-blocking Start Page.
The new Start Window is quite annoying, less informative, displays all projects, not just solutions, pinning is not up to previous standards, and no additional information. Most annoying is the blocking aspect.
I am thinking that there is some sort of extension or setting that Microsoft has somewhere, which can re-enable the Start Page and disable the Start Window.
Alternatively if it is not possible, is it possible to just disable the start window and have the main application appear, when the app starts or when a user closes a solution/project?
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Another hope with this post is that Microsoft sees this request and maybe modifies their code and offers users an option at the start, much like color theme and default code set, as to whether they want app blocking or app non-blocking for the start area.
In Tools > Options > Environment > Startup > On startup, open: select "Empty environment".
Visual Studio will start without showing the modal Start Window.
Start Page on startup extension restores the traditional Start Page in VS 2019.
Start Page: Please give it back! and Make the Visual Studio 2019 start window non-modal are open issues concerning your other points.
I've been updating to the latest version of Visual Studio Preview and I think a setting has been changed.
When I start debugging an ASP.NET web app in Visual Studio 2017 15.7.0 Preview 4, VS opens a new browser.
I've had a similar issue before and it was a setting. This time it's not that setting. As you can see below, my Chrome debugging is already unchecked.
I'm also aware of the check box to "Launch Browser" under Project -> Properties.
If I uncheck that no browser is opened. The previous behavior which I really liked was to open a new tab in my default browser i.e. Chrome.
How do I restore that behavior? I'd like VS to automatically open a new tab in Chrome and if I have no browser open, only then it should open up a new browser.
After updating Visual Studio to the latest version 15.7.0 I ran into the same issue. In my case each time I debugged my project it opens up two new instances of Chrome.
As this was not annoying enough, each time I was moving the window to my second screen, the debug-session stopped immediately.
I've searched the Visual Studio options for browser and found a setting called
Stop debugger when browser window is closed
which could be found under Projects and Solutions -> Web Projects. I unchecked this setting and et voilà the next debug-session started as tabs in my already running browser-instance.
As I am not sure if this is a bug introduced with this Visual Studio version, this may change again in any next release. So this setting may be reverted in case of any unexpected behavior.
Update
Seems like version 15.8.5 still has this issue/behavior.
I'm trying out the new VS 2017 RC and wondering if anyone knows how to get the previous debugging behavior back
In VS 2015 it went like this:
Press start debugging
Website opens in new Chrome tab
Press stop debugging
Website is still open and the site is still running/active
Now in 2017:
Press start debugging
Website opens in new window that can't dock with any other Chrome windows/tabs
Press stop debugging
Website/Chrome window closes, can't continue using the site unless I manually go to the localhost window in Chrome
Is it possible in 2017 to switch back to the 2015 style? So the Chrome/Website window can dock with other Chrome windows/tabs, and it stays open after you stop debugging?
Additionally, I find the new Chrome window frustrating to use, as it seems not to have any history/content available. E.g I can't autocomplete forms or urls, which is very annoying when I'm trying to test a form
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 and higher & Visual Studio 2019 changed things again.
Disabling the following checkboxes will allow you to keep the browser open (doesn't close after stop debugging) and opens another tab (instead of another window):
Tools > Options > Debugging > General
Disable "Enable JavaScript debugging for ASP.NET (Chrome, Edge and IE)".
Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions > Web Projects
(Visual Studio 2017) Disable "Stop debugger when browser window is closed".
(Visual Studio 2019) Disable "Stop debugger when browser window is closed, close browser when debugging stops".
The reason for the change in behavior is due to VS 2017's support for debugging JavaScript/TypeScript running in Chrome. See announcement here https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2016/11/21/client-side-debugging-of-asp-net-projects-in-google-chrome/
To return to the 2015 behavior where Chrome is not closed by the debugger, disable the IE/Chrome script debugger in Tools -> Options like so:
For those of you who updated to Visual Studio 2019, that config is now under
Tools > Options...
And then in the options dialog (see image below)
Projects and Solutions > Web Project :
Uncheck Stop debugger when broswer window is closed, close browser when debugging
I am writing this answer as I think the previous ones cover only half of the problem.
First thing you want is to get rid of this annoying 'run chrome as a new window and auto-close when stopped debugging'
Tools → Options → uncheck Enable JavaScript debugging for ASP.NET
After doing that when starting debugging chrome opens a new tab, after stopping the tab is not closed but refreshing website shows white screen
again in the Tools → Options
uncheck Enable Edit and Continue
Since now you have your old behaviour back.
If your project is .net core:
in Properties folder > launchSettings.json file set this config :
"launchBrowser": false,
Else in visual studio 2022 :
Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions > Web Projects
uncheck : Stop debugger when browser window is closed, close browser when debugging stops
Go to Tools -> Options and search for "Stop Debugger". Then select the node Web Projects under Projects and Solutions. Uncheck "Stop debugger when browser window is closed". Before this option your should apply #jerone's suggestion.
PS: This option can be used after VS version 15.7
There are two ways to do this:
Either Launch without debugging by pressing ctrl + f5 or
Launch with debugging (pressing f5) and then go to the Debug menu and press "Detach All"
Hope that helps.
I'm using Visual Studio 2015.
If you create a new MVC project with all the basics it gives you (home controller, account controller, etc..), then press F5 to start it, visual studio shows the "_layout.cshtml" page in a preview window.
This gets rather frustrating if you're trying to make "on-the-fly" changes to a specific view, press F5 to refresh and see your changes, then alt-tab back to visual studio, only for it to have auto-previewed the layout page again.
How do you turn this feature off?
In Visual Studio, you should disable the checkbox for 'Enable browser link'.
I was able to reproduce on a new install. For me, the offender was "Web Essentials" extension. Try to disable and restart VS.
Also, it only happens with Edge's developer tools open. Haven't seen this with Firefox nor Chrome.
This is caused by the F12 Developer Tools where the page of the selected element in the DOM Explorer/Elements tab is automatically opened and synchronized in Visual Studio.
If you want to keep the Browser Link feature enabled, the F12 Developer Tools window open, and not lose your currently focused tab in Visual Studio, here's a work-around:
1. Right-click on the _Layout.cshtml tab in Visual Studio and select New Vertical Tab Group.
If you already have a tab group open, select Move to Next Tab Group.
2. Resize the splitter control of the tab group so that the tab group is barely visible.
3. Repeat these steps for all other files that automatically open in Visual Studio which disrupt your workflow.
I am unable to replicate your exact problem, but the following should disable the preview tab:
Type "preview" into Quick Launch
Select "Environment --> Tabs and Windows"
Disable "Allow new files to be opened in the preview tab"