I am using Visual Studio for Mac to develop net core MVC, and I'm struggling with restarting the project after I made the changes on controllers or models.
For comparison, asp.net in windows. I just need to register the project folder to IIS and I can access it trough browser with "localhost/myproject". And when I do the changes on backend and rebuild, it directly apply the changes.
Is there any way that I can duplicate the way windows does in mac?
When you change back-end server side code, the c# must be recompiled and this cannot be done without restarting the app. Hot reloads are supported for front end changes to HTML, CSS, and Javascript files however.
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I am a fairly new to developing applications on Mac OS. I am using Visual Studio for Mac 2022 - Preview. I am all up to date and have created a ASP.NET MVC Web Application using .NET 6. I have started the debugger using the generated project. I make a change to the Index.cshtml file but that change fails to be reflected in the browser after saving the file. Any ideas if Hot Reload works in Visual Studio for Mac? I dont see any button to toggle the Hot Reload as all screenshots i have seen are for Windows Visual Studio. Any help would be appreciated as stopping and starting the debugger each time a change is made is very inconvenient. Thanks.
EDIT:
I have installed the Nuget Package
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor.RuntimeCompilation
And then updated my Program.cs file as follows:
// Add services to the container.
builder.Services.AddControllersWithViews().AddRazorRuntimeCompilation();
My changes to .cshtml files still do not want to recompile after saving.
Any more help would be appreciated.
Visual Studio for Mac
Version: 17.0 Preview (17.0 build 5186)
Created a new Web Application (Model-View-Controller) project.
I got it to work on the latest preview version of Visual Studio 2022 for Mac. You will need to add the NuGet package, and also add the service to your builder in the program.cs file as an extra service:
builder.services.AddRazorPages().AddRazorRuntimecompilation();
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/mvc/views/view-compilation?view=aspnetcore-6.0&tabs=visual-studio#enable-runtime-compilation-for-all-environments
I don't know of any way to do it within Visual Studio, but if you navigate to the folder with your .csproj in Terminal, you can type
dotnet watch
and it will load your app. Then you can make changes within Visual Studio, save, and the browser will automatically reload. The only problem is since it's running from the command line, it won't hit breakpoints in your program (I don't know of any way to do so anyway).
As mentioned above, adding builder.Services.AddRazorPages().AddRazorRuntimeCompilation() works well, the only thing that you have to reload the page manually though, while your project is running.
I am debugging an ASP.NET MVC app from Visual Studio 2013. When I start the debug process from Visual Studio, IIS Express where app is hosted gets stuck (my app is not started). It often happens to me. In this situation, I manually stop IIS Express from the tray icon. Even stopping IIS Express from the tray icon I often need to stop manually the debugging from Visual Studio through the stop button. Once debugging is stopped, If I try to debug again it does not work, well, sometimes works and sometimes not, it is random. I have verified that if I clear all browser history and cookies, it works in most cases except for some time. Also I have observed that Visual Studio 2013 takes a long time to boot IIS Express where my ASP.NET MVC app is hosted. Finally, I have observed that my ASP.NET MVC app hosted in IIS Express sometimes is not being displayed correctly when debugging from Visual Studio, I mean, it is displayed without css styles being applied, it seems like css styles are missed. In this case, if I stop debugging and start it again it works.
So How can I improve or solve these kind of weird issues?
IIS Express gets stuck and css styles sometimes not being applied when
debugging an ASP.NET MVC application from Visual Studio 2013
This is a quite strange issue and l suggest you could try these suggestions
Suggestion
1) delete all caches under C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ComponentModelCache, C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp and C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebsiteCache.
2) close VS Instance, delete .vs hidden folder,bin,obj folder under the physcial path of the solution and then reopen your project
3) If you have IntelliTrace, please disable Enable IntelliTrace under Tools-->Options-->IntelliTrace-->General.
4) try another port like 56000 by right-clicking on the project-->Properties-->Web--> project url.
5) disable any third party extensions by Tools-->Extensions and Updates or just use devenv /safemode in developer command prompt for vs2013.
6) try to reinstall IIS on the control panel and if your IIS is not 10.0, I suggest you could download and use it.
In addition, VS2013 is too old and Microsoft does not continue to maintain it. So l suggest you could download and use the latest VS2019. It has more optimization and stronger performance than the previous VS and fixes some remaining issues from previous releases.
ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio 2010, C#/.NET4. I'm using IIS Express as the web server of choice, as it more accurately mirrors our production configurations in IIS7. However, when I go through following process, the libraries used by IIS Express don't seem to be updating.
Run app, find bug
Stop VS2010, fix bug
Build/Run
Testing reveals the new code is not being used
IIS Express continues to run even after stopping the debugger in VS2010, so I'm assuming it's just holding onto the binaries that were used when it was initially launched. Is there a way to get it to use the updated binaries? Or is this the expected behavior? Right now, the only way I can get the new binaries used is to completely exit VS2010 and then reload the project/solution. Even selecting "stop" from the IISExpress systray icon doesn't seem to actually help (it doesn't appear to actually stop the process).
Obviously closing VS2010 and reloading the solution each time is a less-than-ideal workflow.
EDIT: The project is configured to run IIS Express from right click project -> Web. The project URL does not use any virtual directories, it is at root of the local host on port 60830. I thought I remembered seeing IIS Express in the F4 properties listing before, it's not listed there at all right now.
I have a Visual Studio 2010 Solution that contains a few library projectes, a few WPF projects and an ASP.NET MVC 3 project. When i start any project the MVC project get started in the development-server.
Is there some way to stop this behaviour?
Edit:
I just checked to make sure I´m to doing too much wrong. If you start a new solution with a console/whatever project and add an mvc3 project, everytime you start the console project the mvc project gets started as well.
Not sure if this is buggy or an intended feature, but it is kind of strange that the behaviour is so different from normal projects.
If you don't need MVC project for certain period of time, you can unload it (Right-click on the project and select Unload project).
Another option is to select local IIS as a web server (If you have it installed). This way it won't start development server.
You can always choose another project as the default project to start up. You can right-click on the project and set as startup project.
Make sure all your web projects are set to use local IIS rather than the Visual Studio Development server. Unlike the development server, IIS doesn't do anything with a new build until you actually try to load a page.
The project is developed using ASP.NET MVC framework and heavily relies on .NET 3.5.
What would be the best solution to allow a web designer, who is using OSX, to develop the site's UI? Basically he would just need to edit the aspx, css and js files, but also run the web application locally.
I've thought of some possibilites:
Install parallels/vmware/bootcamp and set up everything as you would for windows. Bad: it would be slow, OSX user doesn't like working in windows
Set up Mono and run the webapp on that. Use whatever tool you want for editing the front end files. Bad: does mono support MVC framework, .NET 3.5 and database connections? Unfamiliar platform, so possibly a lot of work setting it up, if it even will work.
Run the site on a separate server, and edit the front end files via network drive. Bad: our development server is so slow that seeing the changes takes too long...
Do you have other ideas or comments for these options?
Thanks!
You could try using a virtual machine. VirtualBox is a free one and is quite simple to setup. The only downside is that you need your own copy of Windows...
What you really need to do is have your web designer mock up the pages in static HTML, CSS, and JavaScript first (in their environment of preference.) Once that's done, adapting the markup to the ASP.NET project should be easily doable by yourself or the designer on a Windows machine (or virtual machine, your preference).
The MVC framework is part of Mono. Ares Technica has an article about the MVC framework and running it on Mono.
While it seems that some people were able to hack the framework to work on Mono back in March and April of this year, Microsoft has since released the MVCframework as open source and it is now fully supported by Mono as of the 2.4.2 release.
Here is a link to the most recent Mono releases along with Virtual Machine images that already been pre-configured to give you the best development experience.
Good luck with your project and hope this helps some.