As someone who prefers watching websites correctly rendered I use the firefox webbrowser as my default browser. While developing an application with C# and the Visual WebGui ( more info ) I discovered that having the firefox browser als default makes the Run Button in VS open another Firefox Tab which leads to millions of open tabs after a few hours of development.

Using the Internet Explorer as default browser VS opens a new window and the application is loaded. If the browser is closed VS stops the current application and everything is fine for running many debug runs in a row without having to care about open tabs or consumed memory.

The easiest solution would be to switch the default browser to Internet Explorer – but .. no one likes easy solutions! ( and I personally hate IE for his crappy render engine and his poor ability to display w3c conform css )
What I want is:

* Keep the default browser
* Make VS run IE for debug purposes

The solution:
Visual WebGui itself uses the *.wgx extension for integration into the WebServer but internally everything that’s running in that wgx is an .aspx. Follow these easy steps:

* Open a new or existing Visual WebGUI Project
* Create a new .aspx WebForm
* Right-click the aspx-File in your project explorer
* Choose “Browse with..” .. Visual Studio will ask for Browser now.
* Choose Internet Explorer
* Close everything and delete the .aspx File

You’re done! Debugging any Visual WebGUI Project will now open (and close!) the Internet Explorer.

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