Phone browser emulators

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Hi all

I am developing a new website that I would like to be able to view on any device. i.e. PC/tablet/phone.
I am using Visual studio but progress is hampered by the fact that I have to publish my website in order to view it on devices other then my PC.
Can anyone recommend something that will integrate well with Visual Studio to allow me to view in a tablet / phone emulator straight from the studio instead of having to publish every time I want to see how it looks on different devices?

Thanks

What I have tried:

I have tried browser-stacks but that keeps crashing and I cannot find any support for it.
I tried the Android SDK/ADB but cannot find a way to integrate it with VS.

Posted 13-Jul-16 23:37pm

dnibbo

Updated 14-Jul-16 5:58am

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Patrice T · Answer 1 · 2016-07-14T05:58:00

Solution 1

You need a web server to serve your site to tablets as you want.
I know nothing that integrate with studio. But you can easily make a web server on a local PC
WampServer, The web dev platform under Windows - Apache, MySQL, PHP[^]

Posted 14-Jul-16 5:58am

Patrice T

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dnibbo 20-Jul-16 6:52am

Thanks but what I am after is the ability to run it from within Visual Studio.
From Visual Studio you can already launch the website in IE or chrome and can change the site on the fly and see the results immediately.
Unfortunately this is effectively how it is rendered on the device running Visual Studio.
To see how it renders on a tablet or phone I currently have to publish the web application and copy to our IIS server and then view it which takes an age.
I am sure I have seen someone using one but have no idea what it was called and it is a difficult question for google as it does not return anything that can help.
Any other VS web developers out there? What do you use?

Thanks

Patrice T 20-Jul-16 7:00am

I don't use VS