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Colonel Panic
Colonel Panic

Reputation: 137594

How to change Visual Studio help (F1) to open in Chrome?

When I press F1 in Visual Studio, it opens the MSDN website in Internet Explorer. I would like it to open in Google Chrome (as links do from other apps). How can I achieve that?

Google Chrome is my default browser in Windows.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4566

Answers (4)

gcode
gcode

Reputation: 2989

It seems neither Windows nor Visual Studio currently provides any facility to change what browser Visual Studio will open with for the F1 documentation feature.

The best solution I've found so far is by using the open source Browser Tamer tool.

After it detects your system's browser, you can create a rule for whichever browser you prefer, targetting the devenv.exe Process.

Upvotes: 0

kborkar
kborkar

Reputation: 17

Try the script below for that.

<script type="text/javascript">

    document.onkeydown = function () {
        if (event.keyCode == 112) {
            event.returnValue = false;
            event.keyCode = 0;
            return false;
        }
    }

    $(function () {
        $(document).keyup(function (e) {
            var key = (e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.charCode);
            switch (key) {
                case 112:
                    navigateUrl($('a[id$=lnk1]'));
                    break;
                default: ;
            }
        });
        function navigateUrl(jObj) {
            window.location.href = $(jObj).attr("href");
        }
    });       
</script>

and then make the hyperlink button

<asp:HyperLink ID="lnk1" runat="server" NavigateUrl="../Home.aspx" style="display:none;">HyperLink</asp:HyperLink>

so that it can call hyperlink on click of F1

Upvotes: -1

butterbox
butterbox

Reputation: 452

  • Open Visual Studio
  • Click ‘Tools’ >> ‘Options…’
  • In Options window, please select ‘Environment’ >> ‘Web Browser’ >> Click ‘Internet Explorer Options…’
  • In Internet Properties window, please select Programs Tab.
  • In Programs Tab, click ‘Set programs’ >> ‘Set your default programs’
  • In this window, you could set your default for all file types and protocols it can open.

This is take from: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/30afe492-7173-4c03-a671-02484e3fc560/cannot-open-visual-studio-2010-help-files-in-another-browsers

Upvotes: 7

Darshi
Darshi

Reputation: 11

Make Google Chrome as your default browser then press F1 in visual studio, It will open the Msdn website in Google Chrome.

Upvotes: 1

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