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Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Force Visual Studio to open IE in separate window each time

This question was asked on experts-exchange,

Personally, I use Firefox, and have it configured so new links always load up in a new tab, but I know people still use Internet Explorer. When I did debug using Visual Studio, I remember this being a common problem, so I took a personal interest in the case.

Here is the solution I came up with,

1) Enable the "Browse With..." Option on the File Menu, right click on the menu, goto "Customize" scroll through the File Listings and drag "Browse With..." to the toolbar, if it is not already there.
2) Add a new browser, browse for "c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe"
3) After you add it, put -new at the very end of the file path, so the whole line looks like this:
"c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe" -new
4) Click ok, it'll throw up some warnings, but just ignore them

Now when you "view in browser" it'll open in a new window.

Hope someone finds this helpful!

Thursday, June 16, 2005

Testing My Blog

Testing this out to see if it works. Don't know why anyone would care what I think anyway :-)