This extension allows you to use ngrok right from within Visual Studio. It will start a tunnel for each web application that is part of your solution.
Has been tested in Visual Studio 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2022.
Get it from the Visual Studio Gallery for VS 2022 or for VS 2019 and earlier. From within Visual Studio:
Release
buildbin\Release
folderCurrently, usage is super-simple. All you need to do is open a solution with one or more web projects and then choose "Start ngrok Tunnel" from the "Tools" menu.
If you have a paid ngrok account, you can make use of custom subdomains with this extension.
Specify the subdomain you would like it to use in a ngrok.subdomain
key
in the appSettings
section of your web.config
file like so:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<appSettings>
<add key="ngrok.subdomain" value="my-cool-app"/>
... more appSettings keys omitted ...
</appSettings>
... more config omitted ...
</configuration>
If you are using an ASP.NET Core or Azure Functions project and want to test locally, you can set the
ngrok.subdomain
key in the appsettings.json
file like so:
{
"IsEncrypted": false,
"Values": {
"ngrok.subdomain": "my-cool-app",
... more app settings omitted ...
}
}
You can also set this value in a secrets.json
file as described here.
This is a brand new extension and would benefit greatly from your feedback and even your code contribution.
If you find a bug or would like to request a feature, open an issue.
To contribute, fork this repo to your own GitHub account. Then, create a branch on your own fork and perform the work. Push it up to your fork and then submit a Pull Request to this repo. This is called GitHub Flow.
v0.9.14 - Add support for Visual Studio 2022.
v0.9.13 - Add support for https.
v0.9.12 - Add support for Visual Studio 2019.
v0.9.11 - Fix ngrok installer after ngrok download page changed.
v0.9.10 - Allow settings override in secrets.json. Thanks @ChristopherHaws!
v0.9.9 - Bug fixes. Find projects within Solution folders.
v0.9.8 - Bug fixes. Automatically install ngrok.exe if not found.
v0.9.7 - Support for ASP.NET Core projects. Thanks @ahanoff!
v0.9.6 - Added support for Visual Studio 2017.
v0.9.5 - Added support for Azure Function projects.
v0.9.4 - Added support for Node.js projects.
v0.9.3 - Fix crash when decimal values in ngrok's JSON response.
v0.9.2 - Allow customizing location of ngrok.exe.
v0.9.1 - Initial Release
Licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.
Copyright (c) 2023 David Prothero