With recent events with vulnerability found in WPF browser plugin and Firefox forcing a block on it, I can't seem to find a setting in Visual C# 2008 Express Edition that would allow me to run/debug my XBAP project in Internet Explorer without having to switch my default browser to IE. Am I missing something here?
A:
Unless it's a web project that option isn't available, at least not for the Express editions of Visual Studio. There's a "Browse With..." context menu option for the Solution Explorer, but I'm pretty sure that's just for web projects, maybe you can try the Web Developer Express edition, but I don't know it has the support for WPF you need... err.. maybe you should just get the Professional Edition...
John Leidegren
2009-10-17 11:02:58
Just what I thought. I have a license for Pro but just wanted to finish a project with Express. And anyway that's a pretty lame reason to switch to Pro when Express does all you currently need ;) Btw, are you sure you can set a custom browser to run in Pro?
Alan Mendelevich
2009-10-17 11:16:14
Yeah sure, the only tricky part is that you'll have to right-click a 'browsable' item in the solution explorer for the menu option to show. The option is called "Browse With" and it will allow you to chose a browser, but it will also let you change which one is the default.
John Leidegren
2009-10-17 11:27:50
I'm certain the option exists in all the editions of Visual Studio as well as the Express ones. But I have noticed some features missing from the Express editions that I sometimes want to have, for that reason I've stopped using them, and stick with pro.
John Leidegren
2009-10-17 11:29:48