I m currently editing a css file inside of Visual Studio 2012 in debug mode I m using Chrome as my browser When I make changes to my application s css file inside of Visual Studio and save refreshing the page will not load with the updated change in my css file I think the css file is still cached I have tried CTRL F5 In Visual Studio 2012 Go to project properties Web tab Choose Start External Program in the Start Action section Paste or browse to the path for Google Chrome Mine is C Users xxx AppData Local Google Chrome Application chrome exe In the Command line arguments box put -incognito Used the Chrome developer tools click on the gear icon checked Disable Cache Nothing seems to work unless I manually stop debugging close out of Chrome restart the application in debug Is there any way to force Chrome to always reload all css changes and reload the css file Update 1 In-line style changes in my aspx file are picked up when I refresh But changes in a css file does not 2 It is an ASP NET MVC4 app so I click on a hyperlink which does a GET Doing that I don t see a new request for the stylesheet But clicking F5 the css file is reloaded and the Status code on the network tab is 200

How to force Chrome browser to reload .css file while debugging in Visual Studio?

To force chrome to reaload css and js:

Windows option 1: CTRL + SHIFT + R
Windows option 2: SHIFT + F5

OS X: ? + SHIFT + R

Updated as stated by @PaulSlocum in the comments (and many confirmed)

Original answer:

Chrome changed behavior. Ctrl + R will do it.

On OS X: ? + R

If you have problems reloading css/js files, open the inspector (CTRL + SHIFT + C) before doing the reload.

~ Answered on 2013-05-06 16:48:42