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Browser Link is a channel between your Visual Studio IDE and any open browser, allowing dynamic data exchange between your web application in Visual Studio and the browser. It uses SignalR to facilitate the communications between Visual Studio and the browser.

More information can be found at the MSDN blog post "Browser Link feature in Visual Studio Preview 2013" by Reshmi Mangalore.

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Disable Browser Link - which toolbar

I want to disable visual studios browser link. I found this question: How can I disable __vwd/js/artery in VS.NET 2013? and many other resources saying I should untick "Enable Browser Link" in the toolbar, but that toolbar doesn't show up in my…
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VirtualPath was outside the current application root

Background: ASP.NET Webforms Application with VB.NET backend. I just recently upgraded from Visual Studio 2010 to Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5.1. This code used to work since we were on Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0. But since the upgrade I…
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Browser Link: Failed to invoke return value callback: TypeError: Cannot read property 'files' of null

Background: Using Visual Studio 2015, ASP.NET Core 1.0 I have created Web Application project. When I run application and go to Chrome Console I have following error: Browser Link: Failed to invoke return value callback: TypeError: Cannot read…
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Web Essentials Browser Link not Working in Visual Studio 2015 for only ASP.net 5 applications

Installed Web Essentials in my new computer but I cannot get Browser Link working with ASP.NET 5 / MVC6 web Applications projects. Works Fine with ASP.NET 4.5 however. This is what I have tried so far. My project.json has following dependencies…
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JavaScript error in Browser-Link

I am working on a project that a former colleague has made. If I run this ASP MVC 4 application in Firefox everything works fine but, when I run it on Internet Explorer 9 I get this weird error: It says there is a error in the SignalR JavaScript…
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ASP.NET Core Browser Link `Unable to get property 'files'`

In the Microsoft Virtual Academy course 'Introduction to ASP.NET Core (formerly ASP.NET 5)', video 3, at 39:00, they demonstrate how Browser Link can sync code selection between Edge's F12 tools and Visual Studio. I haven't been able to see the same…
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How to enable browser link for static files in ASP.NET 5

Is there a way to get Browser Link working with static files under ASP.NET 5? My Startup.cs currently has the following: public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app) { app.UseBrowserLink(); app.UseStaticFiles(); app.UseFileServer(new…
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BrowserLink tooling doesn't work with ASP.NET Core 2.1?

Since upgrading to ASP.NET Core 2.1 inside Visual Studio 2017 BrowserLink no longer works. If I use the base "ASP.NET Core Web Application" template, choosing to target ASP.NET Core 2.0 BrowserLink functions perfectly, but if you choose ASP.NET Core…
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Cannot find "Start Recording" button in VS Web Essentials 2015

I am pulling my hair off here... Why on earth is Start Recording button which is shown in every tutorial is not where it is supposed to be in Web Essentials 2015? Here is the picture of the available options in the Browser Link Menu... And here is…
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Browser Link always asking for "Do you want to stop debugging"

Just wondering my browser keeps asking if I want to stop debugging every time I hit browser link refresh very annoying as is slowing down devtime. Has anybody else come across this? cheers
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Is Visual Studio's Browser Link feature able to use web sockets?

I understand that SignalR is used to communicate with client browsers using the injected artery script. I have what seems to be a common problem, which is that my browser's network log is filled with entries that look like…
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Browser Link with ASP.NET Core v1.0 in Visual Studio 2015 Update 3

I am using Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 and wanting to use the Browser Link feature with my ASP.NET Core v1.0 WebApp project... but I can't get Browser Link to work. Is Browser Link supported for ASP.NET Core v1.0 projects? I can't find much out…
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Mismatched anonymous define() module: function(){"use strict";return axe}

I have this odd error for some reason: "Mismatched anonymous define() module: function(){"use strict";return axe} http://requirejs.org/docs/errors.html#mismatch" After setting some JS breakpoints, I found the error source here: a [browserlink]…
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Is it true that ASP.NET MVC Browser link does not work for https (SSL) url?

I am trying the Browserlink feature of ASP.NET MVC 5 and everything works great for non SSL pages. But if I navigate to a SSL page (with https url), I see 0 connections in the Browser link dashboard. So, is it true that Browser link works only for…
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visual studio 2017 debug unable to start program Invalid pointer

Debugging an ASP.NET MVC application with the default Chrome browser was working fine. I switched the debug over to start up IE instead to do some additional testing and the debugging worked fine. After I was done with IE I switched back to Chrome…
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