Debugging JavaScript with Visual Studio in an ASP.NET MVC 4 application

By rickvdbosch

- 1 minutes read - 131 words

When debugging JavaScript in an ASP.NET MVC (4) application, it is not always enough to uncheck the ‘Disable script debugging’ checkboxes under ‘Tools’ – ‘Internet Options’ – ‘Advanced’ – ‘Browsing’. JavaScript inside a Razor view (a cshtml file) cannot be debugged from Visual Studio. To debug your JavaScript, move it to a separate .js file and link to that file from your Razor view. This way, breakpoints set in the JavaScript will be hit and you can debug from Visual Studio.

Hope this helps

Disclaimer: I know about the F12 Developer Tools, Firebug and all the other possibilities we have to debug JavaScript. This post is about getting JavaScript debugging to work with Visual Studio and breakpoints set in Visual Studio. For those who want it that way. So there… 😉