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Visual Studio Browse With for Web Services Settings Using Powershell
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Update - this no longer works with recent updates to Visual Studio

Visual Studio Browse With for Web Services Settings Using Powershell

Background

By default, Visual Studio 2017 and most prior versions open up a web browser session every time you start a web api or mvc application. This can be annoying if you are trying to debug a web service API. The following steps add "Browser" that's just a powershell api call to initialize the web service.

Steps

  • Click the dropdown next to the green play button.
  • Select Browse With
  • Click Add
  • Enter the following:
Program: c:\windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
Arguments: -NoProfile -NonInteractive -Command iwr -UseBasicParsing -Uri
Friendly Name: Powershell Init
  • Click set as default (optional)
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