In Visual Studio 2010, I have a web application and a console application (actually a service using NServiceBus, but it runs locally as a console application) that I want to both startup when I hit Debug.
Right now I have the Web Application set as the startup application and it opens in a browser, then I right click on my Service and go to Debug -> Start new instance. This works fine, but I would rather not do it manually because I sometimes forget and need the Service running to handle messages from the website.
Thanks.
You can start multiple projects by choosing multiple projects to start and the order by right clicking on the solution node on the solution explorer and selecting Properties from the menu. Select the radio button for "Multiple startup projects" and choose the action as Start for the required projects.
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I have 4 runnable projects(specifically web apps) in a single solution. The problem is when i try to run visual studio all the above mentioned apps getting run in background, but not in browser. However the setup is such that only one app is meant to run. Startup Project is set as Single startup project only
Right click on Solution.
Select Properties.
Select a single Startup Project
I fixed this by doing the below steps in Visual Studio
Select the project you want to stop running in background
press F4 (this will open properties of the project, but not the property page opens by right click > property)
Set Always Start When Debugging to false
But remember this is a user to user configuration. You cannot set it for all your team members
Using Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 Update 3, I create a new project following these steps:
File -> New -> Project -> Templates/Visual C#/ Office/SharePoint/Apps
Choose App for Office (.NET Framework 4.5.2)
In Create app for Office window, Check Task pane and do Next
Check Excel, PowerPoint and Word and click Finish
After creating the solution, In Solution Explorer Window, Select the first project (manifest project) and look at the Properties Window.
If I click the Start Action drop down list, I can only see Chrome and Edge browsers (were installed before visual studio).
I have installed FireFox after visual studio and I'm not unable to add it to Start Action drop down list. I want to debug my Office App in FireFox as well.
How can I fix this issue?
An Office add-in running in desktop Office, which it is where it runs when you are debugging it with Visual Studio on a Windows machine, uses IE under the hood. (For more info, see what-browser-browser-engine-do-office-add-ins-use.) You can't change this. The Start Action setting has no effect. You are always using IE when you press F5. In particular, the Start Action of the manifest project is irrelevant because the manifest doesn't run or get loaded into a browser.
If you want to test the add-in in Office Online, you can sideload it, and when you run it, it will use whatever browser you used to open Office Online.
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
I have a pre-alpha GUI program that I'm dogfooding and want to run under the debugger (for when things go wrong ;), but I don't want to have to launch a new copy of Visual Studio for each instance of the application. Can this be done?
I don't expect to actually be debugging more than one instance at a time, but I still want the debugger in the look for all of them. Also, I'm starting the application a few dozen time a day, so it would have to be easy to do.
You can start an instance of the same, or different projects multiple times in one instance of Visual Studio. Here is how: Right click on any project in Solution Explorer, go to the Debug context menu item, and click Start new instance.
You can view and manipulate all your running processes from the Processes window (menu Debug → Windows → Processes). The menu item (and the Processes window) is only available when the application is running (under Visual Studio).
This can be done.
If you have the Professional version of Visual Studio, you can use it to attach to each instance of the application that you have open.
First, compile the application with debug information so that it can actually be debugged.
Then launch your application. Open as many instances as you need.
In Visual Studio, click menu Debug → Attach to Process.... Select the process(es) you want to debug. You can select more than one from the list by Shift + clicking or Ctrl + clicking them.
I've just tested this to make sure. One instance of Visual Studio (at least Visual Studio 2008) can debug multiple instances of the same application.
If you don't have the Professional version I don't think this can be done. I'm absolutely sure the Express version can not attach to processes. I'm not sure about what "paid" editions can attach to processes though it is possible to do.
I have a Visual Studio 2008 solution with several projects in it - some of which are web applications / sites.
Whenever I go "Debug > Start new instance" for a specific web application and VS launches the ASP.net Development Server (WebDev.WebServer.EXE) for that application, VS also launches 3 additional such processes - one for each of 3 other web applications I have in the solution.
How can I tell Visual Studio to only launch WebDev for the one project I'm debugging? I've looked both in the project configurations and in the solution configuration and could not find the relevant setting...
I think it runs one for each Port -- you can try turning setting them to have the same port - click on the project and look at the properties pane (you have to turn off the the automatic port generation and then set the port#)
I tried the above solution but it did not worked. My solution was a vs2005, what I found to solve the project was to make the property window of VS 2008 visible. Then click on the web projects and then set the "Always start when debugging" property to false and this should take care of it :(
In Visual Studio 2008, there is an entry on the Properties page for the project called "Always Start When Debugging".
Note you have to get to this by selecting the project and going to the Properties pane (or right-clicking Properties). This option is not present when you double-click the project and open it in the main editing pane.
VS by default sets this value to on for all your web projects. Turning it off will solve this problem.
[editorial]This is fairly annoying and I wish the default were false![/editorial]
Suggestion - don't use the internal WebDev, use IIS instead. Also reduces the clutter in the systray. ;)