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Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Jeff Martin
Book Image

Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Jeff Martin

Overview of this book

Visual Studio 2015 is the premier tool for developers targeting the Microsoft platform. Learning how to effectively use this technology can enhance your productivity while simplifying your most common tasks, allowing you more time to focus on your project. Visual Studio 2015 is packed with improvements that increase productivity, and this book walks you through each one in succession to help you smooth your workflow and get more accomplished. From customization and the interface to code snippets and debugging, the Visual Studio upgrade expands your options — and this book is your fast-track guide to getting on board quickly. Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook will introduce you to all the new areas of Visual Studio and how they can quickly be put to use to improve your everyday development tasks. With this book, you will learn not only what VS2015 offers, but what it takes to put it to work for your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Making the most of Browser Link


A common task faced by web designers is dealing with the constant workflow of editing web pages and reviewing their changes. With the large number of web browsers in the market, it can be tedious to keep them all in sync as changes are made. VS2015 seeks to address this with the advent of the Browser Link feature. The Browser Link feature allows you to select any number of browsers available on your development machine, and have them refreshed after making changes to your web pages. This feature makes it very easy to make changes to your website, and to preview them across your site's supported browsers in a streamlined way.

In this recipe, we will look at how to set up Browser Link, and how it can help you with your projects.

Getting ready

You can use Visual Studio Express 2015 for Web, Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition, or any of the premium editions for this recipe. You should also make available all of the web browsers you plan to use (Google Chrome,...