How to change the default browser to debug with in

Question

When you hit F5, the browser windows pops up, how do you set which browser the debugger users in Visual Studio 2008?

Update 1
I have looked for the 'Browse with' option and not found it.
Visual Studio opens the default browser instead of Internet Explorer

Update 2
If you are already debugging you dont have the 'Browse with' option.

• Stop debugging and then its there!

Update 3
The accepted answer below is also relevant to changing the default browser to debug with in Visual Studio 2010.

Answer 1

To permanently make Visual Studio open a project in IE without changing the default browser you can do the following:

Project Properties -> Web -> Start Action

Start external program: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe Command line arguments: Enter the url of the path to your start page ie http:\localhost\myproject\default.aspx

This won't allow you to debug client side script in Visual Studio though.

Answer 2

If you use MVC, you don't have this menu (no "Browse With..." menu)

Create first a normal ASP.NET web site.

Answer 3

In VS 2010 just make the browser as your default broswer in which you want to run your application and there is no need to set anything in visual studio. I did it for google chrome and its working for me. I just made google chrome as my default browser and its working fine. I am almost sure that this should work in VS 2008 also.

Answer 4

If you use ASP-NET MVC, you need to right-click on Default.ASPX which will have a Browse With menu.

Answer 5

If you are using MVC 2 you do not need to create another project, just add component -> webform to the project then:

* Right click the webform  
* Select Browse With...  
* Choose your browser  
* Click Set as Default  
* Delete the webform

Answer 6

I have passed this problem in VS2012. When I can't find "Browse with.." on the right-click of the project, I found it on File Menu -> Browse with. If it doesn't appear, first you have to click on menu bar, then try open file menu again. If it still doesn't appear, you can just go to Quick Launch on the top right of menu bar then type it "Browse with".