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Oleg Sh
Oleg Sh

Reputation: 9011

Visual Studio 2017 starts new instance of browser

I installed Visual Studio 2017 and it starts new instance of browser for web applications. I want to start it in the current opened browser, without any new instances (which closes when I stop debugging). Where is this setting?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 773

Answers (2)

srvts
srvts

Reputation: 78

You can solve this easily.

Go to "Tools" > "Options" > "Projects and Solutions" > "Web Projects" Uncheck the item "Stop debugger when browser window is closed, close browser when debugging stops" > "Ok"

This should do the needful for you.

Upvotes: 1

Bradley Uffner
Bradley Uffner

Reputation: 17001

This is a consequence of a new feature in VS 2017 that allows javascript running in Chrome, to be debugged inside Visual Studio. You can turn the feature off from

Tools > Options > Debugging > General > Enable JavaScript debugging for ASP.NET

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The reason this feature requires a new instance of Chrome, is that the debugger connection requires Chrome to be launched with a specific command-line switch that can only be applied at process start, not to currently running processes.

The feature is explained in detail click here.

One other interesting note, is that opening Chrome's developer console, with F12, will have the side-effect of detaching Visual Studio's debugger from the browser.

Upvotes: 5

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