Visual Studio 2017 debugging vbscript

Question

I'd like to debug a vbscript with Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition and followed the steps mentioned here for VS2015:

Video

I entered

cscript.exe /x foo.vbs

in the commandline, but no debugger starts. Is there a problem with the 2017th version of VS or are there some steps (e.g. configuration steps in VS) which are not shown in the video?

Edit: I tried cscript.exe //X foo.vbs , cscript.exe foo.vbs //X , cscript.exe //X //D foo.vbs and cscript.exe foo.vbs //X //D too

Thanks steff

Answer 1

Neither of those solutions worked for me. Found a workaround on MSDN

1. Start Visual Studio.
2. File -> Open Project.
3. Point it at "C:\Windows\system32\cscript.exe" (or wherever your windows install directory is).
4. When you get the elevation permissions dialog, click 'Ignore'.
5. Go to project properties on the cscript.exe node.
6. In arguments add '//d '.
7. In 'Debugger type' change it to script.
8. Close project properties.
9. Hit F10.

Answer 2

Please run your VS2017 as the admin, and then enable the script option under TOOLS->Options->Debugging->Just-In-Time, and then re-debug it again.

Even if I didn't use the VS2017 community version, but I get the same issue, I found that it was related to the JIT debugging in my side using VS2017 Enterprise version and it works well after I enable it: