Windows cannot find 'https://localhost:xxxx' when starting Aspire project

[thomasvdb]

Describe the bug
Since the upgrade to version 1.5.0, I get an error pop-up for each project starting up (about 14 times) stating the following error message:
"Windows cannot find 'http://localhost:50622;http://localhost:50632'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again"

Everything starts up correctly however so I can still work but it's a bit annoying of course.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Start the Aspire apphost project

Expected behavior
No error popups.

Screenshots

System information:

• OS: Windows
• .NET version: 8
• JetBrains Rider version: JetBrains Rider 2024.2.6
• Aspire plugin version: 1.5.0
• Aspire workload version: 8.1.0

[rafaelldi]

@thomasvdb Thank you for the report! It should be fixed in the next release

[thomasvdb]

@rafaelldi Thanks for the fix!
I have a follow up question.

What's the reason the behavior changed when starting an Aspire project?
Previously when running an Aspire project, it only launched the Aspire dashboard in the browser.

Now all projects are being launched in the browser (which are more then 30 in our case).
Is this wanted behavior?

[rafaelldi]

It wasn't implemented properly before. Now I decided to align it with the behavior of launchSettings.json. You can disable the browser launching with this launchBrowser setting.

[thomasvdb]

To be honest, I liked the previous behavior (and it's also the default behavior in Visual Studio).
If I need the complete Aspire setup, I'll start the Aspire project and only the dashboard is launched. I can then decide myself via the dashboard which URLs I want to open.

If I only need to run a certain project (for development or debugging purposes), I'll start that specific project but then the project should launch automatically.

Now I have to change the launchSettings.json file between each scenario.

[rafaelldi]

Unfortunately, the current design of Aspire's integration with the IDE relies on launchSettings.json.
I can add a separate setting for you to disable browser launch for child projects.

[rafaelldi]

@thomasvdb Here is the new setting

[thomasvdb]

That's awesome, thanks a lot!