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Polypane is a fantastic tool for building websites and web applications. It allows me to test across multiple viewports and keeps everything in sync while I do but the parts that blow me away are the accessibility features and performance testing. It has become a vital part of my workflow.
So I set visual studio to open directly in Polypane for debugging. (I was doing the copy/paste thing for longer than I care to admit 😊)
![Visual Studio - Set to open Polypane when debugging.](https://serversncode.com/content/images/2022/10/visual-studio-select-browser-1.png)
Every time I run debug from Visual Studio it now opens the web app or website in Polypane
Select Web Browsers
By default, Polypane didn't register as a browser in Visual Studio, so I had to add it.
Under the debug option, expand the web browser menu and click "Browse With.."
![Select browse with from the debug options.](https://serversncode.com/content/images/2022/10/Visual-Studio-Browse-With.png)
This will open the menu to allow you to add Polypane as a browser.
![Browsers that are available to Visual Studio for debugging.](https://serversncode.com/content/images/2022/10/Visual-Studio-Browse-With-Options-1.png)
Adding Polypane
To add Polypane as an option click "Add"
![Add the path to Polypane from your system and give it a friendly name,](https://serversncode.com/content/images/2022/10/Visual-Studio-Add-Polypane-Browser.png)
Adding the path to Polypane and then giving it a friendly name, I was very original and called it Polypane, I came close to "the super amazing browser" but decided I'd never remember what I was doing if I did that.
Once you add it and hit ok you just have to select Polypane and select "set as default and you're done.
![Visual Studio - Polypane set as default](https://serversncode.com/content/images/2022/10/Visual-Studio-Browse-With-Polypane-default.png)
Now when you debug from Visual Studio it will open Polypane.
This post is just for Visual Studio, for other options to open Polypane as localhost check out the post: always open localhost in your development browser