How Do I Shut Off Visual Studio 2008 Script Debugging

Question

If I launch an ASP.NET project, using Visual Studio 2008 and Internet Explorer, Visual Studio starts script debugging. I get a Script Documents node with a child node of Windows Internet Explorer and Default.aspx with a bazillion anonymous code nodes underneath.

I'm having difficulty shutting this off, other than telling VS to launch the app in FireFox. I've searched around and found the solution to shut off script debugging in Internet Explorer, but this changed nothing for me.

Has any one found a solution?

Answer 1

Did you check both boxes in IE to disable script debugging:

Disable Script Debugging (Internet Explorer)

Disable Script Debugging (Other)

Also, make sure that after you made the change you closed all instances of IE. Then try debugging with VS again.

Update: just tried it myself and this solution does not work.

Update2: still does not work after a reboot

Finally found a possible solution from here. Apparently this is a known issue and the workaround is to install the silverlight tools and tell the web project to debug silverlight (the debugger apparently cannot debug both silverlight and scripts).

Confirmed: The Silverlight tools solution does indeed work.

Answer 2

Disable all script debugging:

• Open a new command prompt (start->run, cmd.exe). If you are on a 64-bit computer this needs to be a 32-bit prompt (start->run, c:\windows\syswow64\cmd.exe)
• reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\AD7Metrics\Engine\{F200A7E7-DEA5-11D0-B854-00A0244A1DE2} /v ProgramProvider /d {4FF9DEF4-8922-4D02-9379-3FFA64D1D639} /f

If you are using Visual Web Developer Express, replace 'VisualStudio' with 'VWDExpress':

• reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VWDExpress\9.0\AD7Metrics\Engine\{F200A7E7-DEA5-11D0-B854-00A0244A1DE2} /v ProgramProvider /d {4FF9DEF4-8922-4D02-9379-3FFA64D1D639} /f

If you want to restore your computer so that you can debug scripts again:

• reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\AD7Metrics\Engine\{F200A7E7-DEA5-11D0-B854-00A0244A1DE2} /v ProgramProvider /d {170EC3FC-4E80-40AB-A85A-55900C7C70DE} /f

Answer 3

Because this is a known problem, and a possible fix is to install Silverlight Tools, I've decided the best solution is to ditch Internet Explorer 8 and just launch my sites in FireFox.