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What is your default browser? Can you try changing it to IE, if it is not IE already?<br />
What is the error with which the launch fails?
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What is your default browser? Can you try changing it to IE, if it is not IE already?
What is the error with which the launch fails?

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There is no error, i didnt mention that IE does work but no other browser works.
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There is no error, i didnt mention that IE does work but no other browser works.

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There are two issues that could happen due to browser incompatibilities<br />
1) The HTML generated by your ASP .net code not working with the browser<br />
2) VS2010 not able to startup a browser during development/ debug<br />
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You have Issue 2)<br />
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If it works with IE and doesn't work with other browsers. Have you tried updating the other browsers to the latest version? <br />

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There are two issues that could happen due to browser incompatibilities
1) The HTML generated by your ASP .net code not working with the browser
2) VS2010 not able to startup a browser during development/ debug

You have Issue 2)

If it works with IE and doesn't work with other browsers. Have you tried updating the other browsers to the latest version?


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I finally figured it out. Please see comment for answer
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I finally figured it out. Please see comment for answer

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When I run and compile a web in the visual studio 2010 ide, the default page doesn't load in the default browser. You will see the development server start up as usual, then it seems to attempt to load the browser - then it fails and exits debug mode.
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When I run and compile a web in the visual studio 2010 ide, the default page doesn't load in the default browser. You will see the development server start up as usual, then it seems to attempt to load the browser - then it fails and exits debug mode.

VS2010 Start up web page doesn't load in browser

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