WoVS Default Browser Switcher

Hi, first of all, thanks for this great add on.

I have all supported browser installed. But the firefox button is linked with Chrome (even the tooltip on the Firefox ican says it will launch Chrome).

Any idea on how to fix that?

Thanks in advance,
Fabian

Hi Fabian,

We've received several bug reports where the tooltip description is wrong. We're investigating this and we hope we should be able to release a fix for this soon.

thanks

Hi guys,

I'm using version 0.3 and I'm getting the following message everytime I start VS 2010: "This beta bits have expired. Please visit http://www.wovs.com to download updated bits."

I've been looking for instructions on how to update the bits. Any clues?

I wish to say thank you to Clarius for this great add on !

Thanks.

I have the same problem! 
Where is the updated extension?

Thanks for making a great extension.

Steen

Hi wepassos 

Hi wepassos and Steen K,

Sorry about the glitch. We're working on releasing an updated version with new fixes very soon, it should be up in the next hour or so.

thanks for your patience!

This is a minor issue but thought I would report it.

I have only IE, Firefox, and Chrome installed.  The first 3 buttons (IE, FF, Chrome) have correct tooltips.  The next two (Not sure which browser the icon is for, and Opera) show a tooltip of "Set Chrome as the default browser."  I am able to select these two buttons even though that browser isn't installed.


Travis

Hi Travis,

Thanks for taking the time to report this. The icon you don't recognize is for Apple Safari browser. We'll try to repro your scenario and provide a fix for this soon.

thanks

I was just starting up a new WPF application. I dragged a textbox and a label onto the screen. I was resizing the label when I got the following exception thrown. (I was able to reload the designer)

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System.NullReferenceException
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Server stack trace: 
   at Clarius.WoVS.Extensions.DefaultBrowserSwitcher.DefBrowserPackage.„ (Object sender, EventArgs e)
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.OleMenuCommand.get_OleStatus()
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.OleMenuCommandService.Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop.IOleCommandTarget.QueryStatus(Guid& guidGroup, UInt32 nCmdId, OLECMD[] oleCmd, IntPtr oleText)
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Package.Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop.IOleCommandTarget.QueryStatus(Guid& guidGroup, UInt32 nCmdId, OLECMD[] oleCmd, IntPtr oleText)
   at EnvDTE.ProjectItems.Item(Object index)
   at MS.Internal.Providers.VSExternalResourceProvider.ComputeFullPath(String basePath, String file)
   at MS.Internal.Providers.VSExternalResourceProvider.GetFilePath(Uri uri, String relativeToDocument, Boolean throwOnError, Boolean& isProjectFile)
   at MS.Internal.Providers.VSExternalResourceProvider.GetFilePath(Uri uri, FileModel relativeTo, Boolean& isProjectFile)
   at MS.Internal.Providers.VSExternalResourceProvider.GetBinaryModel(String uri, FileModel relativeTo)
   at MS.Internal.Host.Isolation.Adapters.ContextToProtocolAdapter.MS.Internal.Host.Isolation.Protocols.IExternalResourceProtocol.GetBinaryModel(String uri, IFileModel relativeTo)
.... cut off due to VS gallery maximum post limit

Hi Tagnarth,

Thanks for taking the time to reporting this. While we couldn't repro this in a WPF project (did you have a consistent repro or it just happened once?) we did make a change to how we're handling the QueryStatus now which should be more robust for those cases where custom and flavor project types are involved. We just pushed this update as v0.3.
Could you please give it a try and let us know if this fixes it?

thanks!

When I loaded the toolbar, it automatically detected IE, Firefox, and Opera, but not Chrome, it remains greyed out and unavailable. How to enable it?

Secondly, you mention that it includes 'View in Browser' for MVC projects, but I can't find the command anywhere. Your screen shot is for WebForms, not MVC. Can you update the description to show an MVC screen shot?

Thanks,
-Alex

I experienced the same thing (except I don't have Opera). The IE and Firefox selections are active but the Chrome option is grayed out. I'm running Chrome 5.0.375.127.

I checked, and I have the same version. I noticed there is a new version, and upgraded to 6.0.472.53, and still the button is greyed out. So, who knows...but it's kind of ironic that their screen shot shows Chrome as the default.

Hi guys,

Can you please check the following registry entries on your boxes and let me know of they're there? (that is what the extension is using to detect chrome and the other browsers)

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\chrome.exe

HKCR\Applications\chrome.exe\shell\open\command

thanks,
-Victor.

I do not have either of those registry entries. More specifically, on the second one I don't have HKCR\Applications\chrome.exe. I checked before and after upgrading to Chrome v6.0.472.53.

After posting my last response I decided to try something. I made Google Chrome my default browser on the system. That seemed to cause HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\chrome.exe to be created. I then switched my system default browser back to Firefox and the registry entry remained. When I started VS2010 again the Chrome button is now enabled.

Hi Craig,

Thanks for the detailed info. It looks like Chrome is not adding that key until it has been set at least once as the default browser in the system. Knowing this now we will add an extra check in the next update so we try to detect Chrome even if it was never the default browser.

thanks

@adm70: For MVC Projects you need to right click on the Project node in the solution explorer for the View in Browser item to appear.

Thanks for all the replies. Yes, that did it. Everything works now! Thanks also for the great extension.

--Alex

Hmm, love the idea, but the install fails with "This extension is not installable on any currently installed products". I have both VS2008 and VS2010 installed on my dev box... hmmm, any suggestions out there? Is there a reg-hack way to manually install?
Thanks

Hi Andy,

This extension uses VSIX and has "Pro" as the required minimum edition, which basically means will work on any VS 2010 edition but Express. Which edition of VS 2010 are you running? Are you installing by downloading and executing the VSIX or by using the built-in Extension Manager dialog? I don't believe there is much we can do from our side as this is handled by the VSIX installer, but we could reach the VS team and check if there are any known issues about this. I'll do this as soon as we get more info from you on how are you installing the extension.

Thanks,
-Victor.

Thanks Victor, 
I'm using Ultimate so that should not be a problem. I had just tried executing the VSIX. Now that I'm digging into it a bit, I'm seeing several weird things with VS2010 on my machine, the install seems particularly unstable suddenly after my company pushed some "updates"... Gotta love those corporate updates... So now I'm thinking this is an issue on my end. I'm going to try this again on a fresh box.
Thanks for your help!
-A

The extension kills trying to do a publish for Windows Azure. When I'm trying to do a publish for Azure by right clicking on the project and selecting publish. I get a pop up (sensitive dll name removed)
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Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Studio

Cannot evaluate the item metadata "%(FullPath)". The item metadata "%(FullPath)" cannot be applied to the path "obj\Release|Any CPU|\asdf.dll". Illegal characters in path. C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Common.targets
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If I disable the extension publish works again, if I re-enable it publish dies. I was so happy to see this extension, I'm doing tons of testing across browsers on the this project.

Hi Tagnarth,

Thanks for your report. We will try to repro the issue and get back to you soon.

-Victor.

Hi Tagnarth,

Can you please post some detailed repro steps? I downloaded the Azure tooling (from June 2010), unfolded an Azure based solution, added a few web and regular projects using the dialog that popups when you unfold an Azure solution, and then used the View In Browser -> IE, FF, etc plus the toolbar to change the default browser and everything worked as expected, no exceptions thrown.

thanks,
-Victor.

Ok, I could repro the issue now and a fix is on its way. Turns out the custom project system implementation for Cloud projects (.ccproj) doesn't like being asked for a build configuration and instead of returning a HRESULT indicating failure it is just blowing up in the air with an exception.

We will push out update bits to the VS Gallery in the next couple of hours.

Thanks for reporting this!

Hi Tagnarth,

This has been fixed in v0.2 which is now available to download. Please update it and the error should be gone.

thanks

Awesome. This extension is going to make my life much easier. Sorry I didn't reply with repro steps. For some reason I'm not getting email notifications for any replies on here.

Please everyone update to this new version (either by using Extension Manager or downloading the VSIX again). This version fixes:

- Error when used on Azure and Database projects.
- Support for Website projects.

Keep your feedback coming!

thanks

When I've got the extension enabled and try to deploy a Database project, VS completely crashes. I'm trying to Deploy to a SQLEXpress instance.

Hi Adriannputter,

This has been fixed in version 0.2 which is now available for download. Please update it and the error should be gone.

thanks,
-Victor.