View Multiple Web Browser Windows in the Visual Studio IDE
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View multiple browser windows in the Visual Studio IDE to consolidate your workflow.
I recently discovered that I could view a browser window in the Visual Studio IDE by going to View → Other Windows → Web Browser. While I found that useful, I recently came across a situation in which I wanted more than one web page in the IDE. It took some time, but I eventually figured out there are several ways to do this:
- Open a web browser tab, then go to Windows → New Window. This will spawn a second web browser tab.
- Open a web browser tab, navigate to a website (e.g., Google), right click a link and select Open Link in New Window.
- Open a web browser tab, then navigate to an HTML file on your hard drive with multiple frames. That HTML file might contain, for example, the following:
<html> <head> <title>Multiple Webpages</title> </head> <frameset cols="50%, 50%"> <frame src="http://www.google.com/"> <frame src="http://www.microsoft.com/"> </frameset> </html>
- This first option is the easiest. Although it does add extra tabs to your IDE, which can make it take longer to look through your other code tabs.
- This second option works best if you don't like messing with the menu options in the IDE.
- This third option reduces the number of tabs you use. Also, you can drag the separators between pages to focus on one page at a time by making it bigger. However, some websites that require a login will not work, probably becuse they require cookies. And some websites (e.g., Code Project) will remove the frames and load themselves instead.