How to stop browser closing automatically when you stop debugging on VS 2017
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 and higher & Visual Studio 2019 changed things again.
Disabling the following checkboxes will allow you to keep the browser open (doesn't close after stop debugging) and opens another tab (instead of another window):
Tools > Options > Debugging > General
- Disable "Enable JavaScript debugging for ASP.NET (Chrome, Edge and IE)".
Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions > Web Projects
- (Visual Studio 2017) Disable "Stop debugger when browser window is closed".
- (Visual Studio 2019) Disable "Stop debugger when browser window is closed, close browser when debugging stops".
The reason for the change in behavior is due to VS 2017's support for debugging JavaScript/TypeScript running in Chrome. See announcement here https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2016/11/21/client-side-debugging-of-asp-net-projects-in-google-chrome/
To return to the 2015 behavior where Chrome is not closed by the debugger, disable the IE/Chrome script debugger in Tools -> Options like so:
For those of you who updated to Visual Studio 2019, that config is now under Tools > Options...
And then in the options dialog (see image below)
Projects and Solutions > Web Project :
Uncheck Stop debugger when broswer window is closed, close browser when debugging
I am writing this answer as I think the previous ones cover only half of the problem.
First thing you want is to get rid of this annoying 'run chrome as a new window and auto-close when stopped debugging'
Tools → Options → uncheck Enable JavaScript debugging for ASP.NET
After doing that when starting debugging chrome opens a new tab, after stopping the tab is not closed but refreshing website shows white screen
again in the Tools → Options
uncheck Enable Edit and Continue
Since now you have your old behaviour back.
