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Databases Installing and Using Glimpse

Javon Luke
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Javon Luke
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Javon Luke
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Website for EntityFramework

Is there any way to get the web app to run through local host because mine will just run through CMD

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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The whole point of a "web app" is that it runs on a server.

So to run it locally, you'd have to set up a server and install the app on your server.

mattmilanowski
mattmilanowski
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mattmilanowski
mattmilanowski
15,323 Points

I feel like Javon Luke is asking something different then what Steven Parker's answer suggests. I struggled with this a bit. When I ran the Visual Studio project that I downloaded from the teacher's notes, it started up with the command line interface. I couldn't figure out why the teacher's app started and loaded a web page and mine was just a cmd prompt. Then I realized that the app was set to start with ComicBookLibararyManager. That is the Cmd interface.

To run the Web part of the program you need to right click ComicBookLibraryManagerWebApp in the Solution Explorer window of Visual Studio, then choose - Set as Startup Project. Now when you start debug you'll see the browser load the correct project, just like the teacher's example.

Also note - If you installed all the Glimpse stuff before changing the start up project, you've probably installed Glimpse in the wrong place. I had to go back again to nuget and install Glimpse stuff all over again, within the correct project this time.

I'm over 4 months too late but I hope this helps people in the future!