Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Change Browser Plug-in

I posted something a while ago about how to change browsers in Visual Studio, but it can be problematic when using the MVC framework, because VS won't let you browse templates or Views directly in a browser like you can with Web Forms - which lead me on a short search down the interwebs where I found this solution!

For Visual Studio 2010, there's a downloadable plug-in available that will let you change your browser on the fly. Check out:

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/bb424812-f742-41ef-974a-cdac607df921

I'm using it now and it's awesome. It puts a little toolbar at the top of the IDE with icons for all the browsers you have installed on your PC so you can switch between them. Browsers available are ie, firefox, chrome, safari, and opera. This makes switching browsers even EASIER, and I've found it to be pretty nifty.

Oh, and according to Microsoft, a similar toolbar will come built in with Visual Studio 2011. Purty cool!

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