[ACCEPTED]-How do I open links in Visual Studio in my web browser and not in Visual Studio?-hyperlink

Accepted answer

Score: 64

There is an extension that provides this 5 behavior called Open in External Browser. It works in Visual Studio 4 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2017. (An old version 3 available on GitHub supports Visual Studio 2010.)

Thanks goes 2 to Dmitry for pointing this out in his answer to this similar 1 question.

EDIT: The Visual Studio team is finally starting to work on putting this right into Visual Studio. Status of this feature request just moved from "Under Review" to "Started".

Score: 7

I could not find a setting for this so I 5 wrote a simple macro that you can use. You 4 can bind this to a key-combo like all macros. This 3 will get the job done until we get a better 2 answer.

Sub OpenURLInChrome()
   'copy to end of line
   DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.EndOfLine(True)

  'set var
   Dim url As String = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text

   'launch chrome with url
   System.Diagnostics.Process.Start( _
      Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData) _
      + "\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe", url)
End Sub

Just put your cursor in front of 1 the url and run the macro...

Score: 5

This is an improvement on the macro suggested 5 above by mracoker.

This macro looks for a 4 URL on the current line and does not capture 3 text after the URL as the previous answer 2 did.

Sub OpenURLInChrome()

   ' Select to end of line
   DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.EndOfLine(True)
   Dim selection As TextSelection = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection

   ' Find URL within selection
   Dim match = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match( _
      selection.Text, ".*(http\S+)")

   Dim url As String = ""
   If (match.Success) Then
      If match.Groups.Count = 2 Then
         url = match.Groups(1).Value
      End If
   End If

   ' Remove selection
   selection.SwapAnchor()
   selection.Collapse()

   If (url = String.Empty) Then
       MsgBox("No URL found")
   End If

   ' Launch chrome with url
   System.Diagnostics.Process.Start( _
      Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData) _
      + "\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe", url)
End Sub

To use: place cursor somewhere before 1 the URL; Run Macro (I mapped to Ctrl-Shift-G)

Score: 0

2019 Update: All the answers are old. There's now a 2 native way to do this in options in VS2019 1 Community:

Source: stackoverflow.com

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