Javascript debugging, breakpoint in first line issue

Are there still no news on this bug already posted here?

http://forums.asp.net/t/1082063.aspx

Do you guys realise that the visual studio has a reputation of beeing completely useless for javascript development??

Please fix this bug, and for us it is completely uninteresting if you have to fix in in the vs code or in the jscript engine.

STOP to search for excuses ==> FIX IT!

Re: Javascript debugging, breakpoint in first line issue

just put debugger; wher you want it to break and it will

that is what I do

Re: Javascript debugging, breakpoint in first line issue

I cannot find anyway to debug javascript in my VS2008 too. When press F5, VS2008 ignore all javascript breakpoints! Is it a bug?

In the previous version of VS, there is a dropdownlist (you can select debug or release). However, I cannot find this feature in my VS2008. How can I enable it.

Re: Javascript debugging, breakpoint in first line issue

Tools - > Options -> Enable Advanced Configuration (Something like this, don't remember exactly) "petersgyoung" wrote in message news:2331185@forums.asp.net... >I cannot find anyway to debug javascript in my VS2008 too. When press F5, >VS2008 ignore all javascript breakpoints! Is it a bug? > > In the previous version of VS, there is a dropdownlist (you can select > debug or release). However, I cannot find this feature in my VS2008. How > can I enable it. >

Re: Javascript debugging, breakpoint in first line issue

Ok obviously it's not enough to write a link to the original post, because nobody reads it.

So here the description of the real Problem.

VS isn't able to put a breakpoint in the first line of an anonymous function.

Example:

var myfunction = function(myParam) {
   myParam.myMethod();
};

You will not be able to debug the line, where myMethod is called, because it is the first line
of an anonymous function. The only way to workaround this problem is to put in a dummy line
like var debug = 1; or something.

Jeff King allready analyzed the problem in the original post, and discovered that it is within the jscript.dll

He also promised that this problem will be fixed properly, this post is nearly one year old now!!

So, are there any news on that? Is someone looking for the problem, or will the web 2.0 developers be ignored again?

Re: Javascript debugging, breakpoint in first line issue

var myfunction = function(myParam) {

debugger;
2 myParam.myMethod();
3 };

debugger fires the debugger at that line give it a try forget the breakpoint

Re: Javascript debugging, breakpoint in first line issue

as Is said, with a dummy line in the first line it works, the problem is that you cannot set the breakpoint in the first line.

It doesn't matter if you put var blah = 1; or "debugger" in the first line.

But thats no solution, thats garbage!

This is a known Bug, and it needs to be fixed, so pls keep your weird so called workarounds, they're not practical

Re: Javascript debugging, breakpoint in first line issue

another year is nearly over. a lot of things have changed. just this embarrassing bug is still not fixed.

hey microsoft guys, if you don't know how to do it, why don't you ask some people from mozilla, they might help you :-)