Friday, September 23, 2011

Disabling Script Debugging

If you are using IE8+, you have to use a command line to disable script debugging.  Disabling script debugging can speed up your debugger a lot, so you might want to have it disabled unless you need it.

If you’re on a 64-bit Windows, make a batch file disable:

c:\windows\syswow64\reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\AD7Metrics\Engine\{F200A7E7-DEA5-11D0-B854-00A0244A1DE2} /v ProgramProvider /d {170EC3FC-4E80-40AB-A85A-55900C7C70DE} /f

enable:

c:\windows\syswow64\reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\AD7Metrics\Engine\{F200A7E7-DEA5-11D0-B854-00A0244A1DE2} /v ProgramProvider /d {4FF9DEF4-8922-4D02-9379-3FFA64D1D639} /f

For 32-bit windows, just remove the c:\windows\syswow64\ part.

I added these two batch files to my External Tools  in VS (Tools->External Tools) for quick access.

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Hopefully you find this useful!