Visual Studio community 2015 browser connect not working always shows 0 connections

I just started using Visual Studio and tried to duplicate a tutorial by Bob Tabor. Trying to display a HTML file using Browser connect.

here's what I'm doing:

1) new project
2) Web ASP.NET Web Application
3) Empty template
4) add new item --> html page
5) add 'test" to to title and body
6) try to view in browser - get http://localhost:51962/HtmlPage1.html
   with waiting for localhost to respond

browser dashboard says no connections

added to web.config:

<system.webServer>    <handlers><add name="Browser Link for HTML" path="*.html" verb="*" 
       type="System.Web.StaticFileHandler, System.Web, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" 
       resourceType="File" preCondition="integratedMode" /></handlers></system.webServer>

but nothing seems to work. could someone provide the proper steps?