Unfortunately, today’s tools for client-side debugging and tracing aren’t as evolved as their server-side counterparts. For example, things such as capturing ongoing communication traffic between the client and the server, or client-side debugging, aren’t usually supported by today’s IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) such as Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. The next version of Visual Studio (code-named Orcas at the time of writing) promises a lot of improvements in this area:
Improved IntelliSense technology with support for JavaScript code, which provides coding hints based on specially-formatted comments in the code
Breakpoints in inline JavaScript code
These are only the most important new coming features; there are others as well. For more information we suggest that you browse and keep an eye on Scott Guthrie’s blog at
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/
, the JScript blog at
http://blogs.msdn.com/jscript/
, Bertrand Le Roy’s blog at
http://weblogs.asp...