Developers can run and debug the app and enjoy the usual functionality such as Hot Reload.

So clicking on a tutorial link in the new pane - to the program.cs file that resides in the Solution Explorer, for example - will open up that file in the editor. Step 4 of the Tutorial: Try the Counter (source: Microsoft). Basically, that tutorial is presented in a new sidebar pane, so instead of dealing with a localhost debugging browser tab, a tutorial web site in another browser tab, and the IDE instance, the latter two are combined. The idea is to bring all the resources involved with the normal tutorial process completely inside the IDE so there are fewer things to juggle when following a web site tutorial. The experiment was announced last month in a video from Microsoft's James Montemagno titled ' Test the new Blazor experimental tutorial INSIDE Visual Studio.' The catch is, only 50 percent of developers who attempt to download the preview IDE/tutorial package will actually get the customized build.

Starting with Blazor, the experimental tutorial functionality is accessed by downloading a special tutorial-specific Visual Studio preview build. You have a 50/50 shot at accessing a new experiment from the Visual Studio dev team that integrates tutorials with the IDE for an experience that combines guidance with live code.

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