Hot reload (almost the real thing)

With .NET 5, we got the ability to reload our Blazor site when we make changes to a code file. Users have asked for hot reload and Microsoft is aiming to release hot reload in the .NET 6 timeframe.

To set this up, do the following:

1. In Visual Studio, select the Tools menu and then Options.
2. Select Projects and Solutions and then ASP.NET Core.
3. In the right box under the General heading, change the value of the Auto build and refresh option to Auto build and refresh browser after saving the changes.
4. Right-click on MyBlogServerSide and select Set as Startup project.
5. Now run the project by pressing Ctrl + F5 (it only works without debugging).
6. In the web browser, bring up the counter page by adding /counter to the URL.
7. Make a change to the Pages/Counter.razor file and click Save.

   Our web browser should now reload, and the change will be shown.

This also works from the command line by running the following command...