Thursday, August 19, 2010

IE8 And Visual Studio Debugging Fail

I told Jason I was going to make this into a short story, but since it's 4:25 I decided not to.

The long and short of it is:

IE8 and Visual Studio debugger do not work well together. Well at least VS2005 and IE8 do not work well together unless you only have one IE8 Browser open (the one you are debugging in - this happens in firefox as well).

If you have multiple IE8 browsers open, your debugger will not stop on your breakpoints when you are running your code. (try it, its fun! Maddening at first when you cant get any of your debugging techniques to work, but fun after you pull out your hair)

I looked up this issue and found this information here

Enjoy! and um... dont lose your hair over this!