Thinking about Code

ASP.Net makes it very easy to write and debug server side code.  I’ve found when talking to ASP.Net developers that many of them don’t know that you can debug clent side script with VS.NET  too.

This week I was working on a client web site and needed to to write some client-side JavaScript.  This reminded me to post a quick how-to on client side debugging.

Steps

1. Enable client-side script debugging in Internet Explorer
   1. Open Microsoft Internet Explorer.
   2. On the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
   3. On the Advanced tab, locate the Browsing section, and uncheck the Disable script debugging check box, and then click OK.
   4. Close Internet Explorer.
2. In your JavasSript function add the keyword debugger . This causes VS.NET to switch to debug mode when it runs that line.
3. Run your ASP.Net application in debug mode.

That’s all there is to it.

 

Comments

re: TIP: Debugging JavaScript with Visual Studio.NET 2/13/2006 12:46 PM David Osorno

Hello,
I was looking for an answer in how to debug javascript.
It worked perfectly!!
Thanks very much

 re: TIP: Debugging JavaScript with Visual Studio.NET 2/14/2006 11:14 PM Walt Ritscher

Glad it was useful to you. This article has been around for awhile. Did you find it from a search engine?

 re: TIP: Debugging JavaScript with Visual Studio.NET 11/9/2006 10:05 PM Jayesh Jadhav

Yes "I" found it from a search engine

 re: TIP: Debugging JavaScript with Visual Studio.NET 1/6/2007 8:29 PM Naveen Kumar

It worked for me.. Very useful.. Thanks

 re: TIP: Debugging JavaScript with Visual Studio.NET 1/10/2007 8:24 AM Aaron

THANKS

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