Visual Studio 2008 Orcas changing the default browser and its default size

Hi,

Every one has a different choice when it comes to browser. I personally like Firefox for surfing the net. I should say the number of addin’s available for Firefox are really very good and makes surfing the net and debugging (Javascript) very easy.

When we use Visual Studio and try to debug a Web Application, by default, it uses the IE. Many a times we do not want it use IE but some other browser (Like Firefox).

With Visual Studio 2008 this can be done very easily. To Change the default browser while using View in browser option just right click on the aspx and select “Browse with” context menu. In the next dialogue we can select or also add the browser there. We can also set the default browser for the Visual Studio in there.

In fact you can also select the default size of the browser to open for the dropdown list below. This a really wonderful feature because many a times when working with a web application I might want to see how does the application looks in different size or browser.

Vikram

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Posted on 10/20/2009 2:04:14 AM

I can get ASP.net app to run in IE but if I hit same app using firfox some elements are missing/not visible.

How do we debug that?
I thought we could tweak the html but there are a whole bunch of ASP speecific tags like ASPLabel and such...

I'm using VS 2008.

Posted on 11/6/2009 2:29:57 PM

Hi Vikram
Sooooo simple but just one of those things you never get round to sorting out!
I had a requirement to check a build in Firefox only and could not work out how to change the browser - Googled - yours was first.
Thanks again
Dave

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