Visual Studio 2008 simplifies JavaScript debugging
One of the more cumbersome development tasks is debugging client-side JavaScript code. Tools such as Firebug are helpful, but in the case of Firebug, you're forced to use Firefox. Thankfully, Visual Studio 2008 provides a robust and developer-friendly environment for debugging JavaScript. Simplification Whenever I hear developers discuss the JavaScript debugger features in Visual Studio 2008, I notice that they're quick to point out that this type of functionality has been available in prior versions of the Visual Studio IDE for a long time. This is certainly true, but the improvements in Visual Studio 2008 make it much simpler to use. The irritating aspect of JavaScript debugging in Visual Studio 2005 is that you have to first execute the application before any breakpoints can be created in your JavaScript. This approach has been modified in Visual Studio 2008 to allow breakpoints to be defined in the source code before the application runs. In fact, you can set them in b...
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