Running Razor, MVC5, .Net 4.5.1. I have no idea what constitutes a "start page" in MVC within the visual studio development environment. How do I set it so that every time I run F5 my home page opens?
Setting a startup page for MVC5 when debugging
This can be done in the Project Properties.
Open Solution Explorer and find the relevant project.
Right-click on the project and choose Properties (or press Alt+Enter).
Navigate to Web -> Start Action.
Explanation
By default an MVC application has the Specific Page radio button selected and the input box is blank. This means that the application will open a browser to the server with no page specified and MVC will use the default route of /Home/Index.
http://localhost:12345/
You can specifiy a different route. For example you could use Home/About (see image).
This would open
http://localhost:123456/Home/About
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I created a .NET Core 2.2 web application project in VS 2017 and the ASP.NET Core Web Server option from the console output is not visible when the application runs with IIS Express.
By .NET Core 2.1 web application projects this option is there and it is showing the output without any problems.
I think you have to right-click on Project->Properties.
Then on the right side menu to select "Debug".
In Web Server Settings find "Hosting Model" and select "Out of process"
The simplest option is to change your currently selected debugger run option (the dropdown with the green "play" button / F5) from IIS, to the name of your project (e.g. so that "FooWebApp" shows up now in the dropdown). This way the browser will still open like it was before, but the console window will start showing as well.
On the other route with Tuvia's answer above (thanks!), it's actually Properties/launchSettings.json which stores / determines these actions. There you can also set "launchBrowser": false if wanted, or if you want to change if the console window opens, within "IIS Express" profile, manually add: "ancmHostingModel": "OutOfProcess" (or else set to InProcess).
I have a solution which contains multiple applications. In the 'root' application I read a config file, download the xap files and load them using some class System.ComponentModel.Composition.Hosting.DeploymentCatalog .
The problem is that I can't debug these dynamically loaded applications (the web project, I can debug the Silverlight client). Visual Studio says the breakpoint will not be hit, displaying the exclamation mark inside the yellow triangle. If I copy the dll+pdb files to root application's output folder than the breakopints become colored in full red but they still aren't being hit.
Any solutions? Thanks!
Answering my own question:
I was able to debug my web project in Visual Studio 2010 by following the steps:
Web project -> Properties -> Web section -> Select Don't open a page. Wait for a ....
Start 'root' application in normal mode.
Right-click on web project -> Debug -> Start new instance.
That was it!
Go to Properties inside the Website project, click on Web tab at the left side, you will find Debuggers section at the bottom. Try checking ASP.NET radio button and uncheck Silverlight radio button and see whether you are able to debug the Web project or not.
If still this doesn't help, try unchecking Disable script debugging option in IE > Tools > Internet Options > Advanced
I am trying to debug a Windows Azure WebRole which is an MVC3 project, but I want it to launch in any browser of my choice.
The Windows Azure is set as the Startup Project and launches the MVC3 project WebRole.
I am using Visual Studio Web Developer Express 2010.
I have previously stabbed in the dark by setting the following properties as in the image below but to no avail:
I then decided to set the project to not independently launch a page as above.
Is there a way to setup a default browser with the above scenario AND without changing my Windows default browser?
I've gotten around this in the past by adding in an ASPX or HTML page to the project and then right clicking it and selecting Browse With. You can then change the default browser in there without having to change your default browser within windows.
I haven't tried this with the Express edition however, but I don't see why they wouldn't include it in there.
You can delete the file afterwards and it will still retain the setting.
How about this:
WoVS Default Browser Switcher
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/bb424812-f742-41ef-974a-cdac607df921
You right on the page shown in solution explorer and then browse with whatever browser you want to set and add it as default browser.
I have a Silverlight 4 project in VS2010 along with a web project to host the silverlight app. When I hit F5 to launch the debugger the auto-generated html page (SilverlightApplication2TestPage.html) launches in IE, but the page is loaded via the file system (C:\Users\Chloraphil\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\SilverlightApplication2\SilverlightApplication2\Bin\Debug\SilverlightApplication2TestPage.html).
I want the aspx page to launch via the embedded web server. I have right clicked the aspx file and selected "Set as Start Page" and confirmed it is set in the "Web" tab in the properties dialog.
You have to set the SilverlightApplication2.Web project (the one that contains the .aspx page) as StartUp project (Set as StartUp project in context menu in Solution Explorer).
Is there anyway to have Visual studio start up a certain browser when running asp.net project?
Open any Web Form
File->Browse With...
Select from the list and hit "Set as Default"
yes
navigate to any aspx file in solution explorer
Right click browse
with and set your default browser
See here