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Tip #29: Did you know… How to enable Edit and Continue feature for Web Application Projects?

If you want to edit your WAPs while debugging them, here is how you do it:

1. Check the “Enable Edit and Continue” checkbox in the Web Properties page.

Enable Edit and Continue

2. Check the “Enable Edit and Continue” checkbox under  Tools->Options->Debugging->Edit and Continue

Tools Options for Edit and Continue

These two setting will enable Edit and Continue as you debug your WAPs.

Reshmi Mangalore

SDET, Visual Web Developer

Posted: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 8:06 PM by WebDevTools

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Around and About .NET World said:

Per impostazione predefinita, nei Web Application Projects l'opzione Edit and Continue è disattivata

# November 26, 2008 5:54 PM

amir said:

what program are u talking

is it vs2005 asp.net?

# November 27, 2008 6:17 AM

Visual Studio Hacks said:

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. After an unusually long break between posts due to the spectacular hardware failure of my primary dev box (complete with sparks and

# November 29, 2008 2:26 PM

elugardo said:

Why isn't this enabled by default? Are there drawbacks to doing this? does the project take longer to start up?

# December 18, 2008 12:09 PM

drew said:

I wish this worked. It doesn't, at least not on my machine. Changing a simple string value requires a restart.. sigh.

# January 20, 2009 2:59 PM

xinqiu said:

To answer some of the above question, this function should work in vs2008 rtm and vs2008 sp1.

Please post a comment and question in asp.net forum if you find it's not working as you expected.

Thanks

# May 31, 2009 5:12 PM
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