"Lau Lei Cheong" <leu_lc@yehoo.com.hk> wrote in message
news:uL1pC2LGGHA.3728@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> When you right-click on an aspx file within the IDE and select "start in
> browser..."(or something like that), a dialog popups allow you to select
> which browser to open with.
>
> Search for the "Set as default" button on the dialog. Select "Internet
> Explorer" then press it.

>I had Firefox set as my default browser, but I wanted to change back to IE
>when testing my webservices.
>
> Easy enough....(in IE) Tools>Internet Options>Programs then check
> "Internet Explorer should check to see whether it is the default browser".
> I restarted IE and responded "Yes" to whether to make IE the default
> browser.
>
> I then started Firefox and selected "No" when it asked if it should be the
> default browser.
>
> I restarted IE again and was not asked if it should be the default
> browser, because it was already set to be the default browser by the
> preceeding steps.
>
> The problem is that ASP.Net 2.0 starts Firefox when testing webservices.
> Why?
>
> I would uninstall Firefox, but I really like some of the plugins available
> with Firefox that have no equivilent in IE and that shouldn't be needed to
> make VS 2005 behave.
>
> To test whether IE was really the new default browser, I clicked Start>Run
> and typed in the URL of my website. IE started as expected.
>
> I again ran the webservice from VS 2005 and it started Firefox.
>
> I even restarted VS 2005 and it still starts Firefox when testing the
> webservice.
>
> Anybody seen this before? Any ideas?
>
> Jim
>
>
>

>
> "Lau Lei Cheong" <leu_lc@yehoo.com.hk> wrote in message
> news:uL1pC2LGGHA.3728@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> When you right-click on an aspx file within the IDE and select "start in
>> browser..."(or something like that), a dialog popups allow you to select
>> which browser to open with.
>>
>> Search for the "Set as default" button on the dialog. Select "Internet
>> Explorer" then press it.
>
> Right-click the ASMX, choose "Browse with..." and the dialog box that you
> mentioned pops up which allows you to set the default browser for the ASMX
> files.
>
> FYI....although I uninstalled Firefox, it still shows as an option in this
> dialog box.
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Jim
>