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It shows I have Live Preview installed but per instructions to click Live Preview from file right click or from "View" or anywhere else is not available to me. I restarted my pc. Didn't change anything. I uninstalled Live Preview and reinstalled, restarted pc. Nothing. What am I doing wrong?
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Hello @Paula Henderson,
Thank you for taking time to post this issue in Microsoft Q&A forum.
As Visual Studio(VS IDE) and Visual Studio Code(VS Code) are two different products, their extensions are usually different. May I firstly confirm, if you are using this extension: Live Preview? If so, it’s an extension for VS Code, not for VS IDE.
If you are using VS Code, the preview option should be there when you right-click one of the web pages. For example, I tested with a single .html file, see following screenshot:
If you are using VS IDE, then maybe you mean the integrated Web Live Preview feature? If so, you may need to use it in ASP .NET Web applications. You can right-click one of the web pages, select "View in Browser" or "Browse With…"(choose the Internal Web Browser or other web browsers, click Browse button) to live preview this web page.
Don't forget to enable web live preview feature and restart VS(Tools > Options > Web Forms Designer > General >Web Forms designer (requires restart) > Web Live Preview).
For example, tested with an ASP .NET Web application(.NET Framework, Web Forms):
Above is for VS 2022, if you are using VS 2019, you should follow the guidance here to enable it:
If you still fail to see the corresponding options, please kindly share us some screenshots to confirm the issue and check further.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Sincerely,
Tianyu
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I have Visual Studio Code installed. This is what I see when I right click my file.
Hi @Paula Henderson,
Thanks for sharing us the picture to check.
I can see that the file which you are going to preview is a .coffee file. I doubt that this is not a "correct" file which is supported by the "Live Preview" extension.
I think it has some limits, maybe it doesn't support .coffee files.
You can try to confirm this by creating a new simple .html file. If you can find the "Show Preview" option and open the preview view of this .html file, that means the extension is enabled and is working correctly in VS Code on your side(I created a .coffee file on my side and tested as well, I also didn't see the "Show Preview" option).
I believe it's a limit. Currently, I would suggest you report this issue on Github - vscode-livepreview, or try to use other extensions.
Feel free to contact us:)
Kind Regards,
Tianyu
Thank you. My extension was wrong. I actually had a different file I created not coffee ext but it was apparently wrong ext too because it did not have preview. It's all in the ext. Thanks so much for your help