Javascript and Visual Studio 2003 help...

[almurph]

Hi,


I'm using Visual Studio 2003 to develope a Web-form application. This
application required me to do some Javascripting.
Now my Javascrip is not exactly what you would good - I need lots of
help and explanations etc... High levels of variable transparence
etc.
Because of this, I found the whole deugging routine quite difficult
with VS2003 and Javascript. For example, the intelligent completion
thingy works but does not provide an explanation of the methods etc...
I was wondering is there a plug-in that can enhance VS2003's
Javascript development ability?

Any comments/suggestions/user-experiences much, much appreciated.

Cheers & thanks
Al.

 

[dd]

Hi,

I'm using Visual Studio 2003 to develope a Web-form application. This
application required me to do some Javascripting.
Now my Javascrip is not exactly what you would good - I need lots of
help and explanations etc... High levels of variable transparence
etc.
Because of this, I found the whole deugging routine quite difficult
with VS2003 and Javascript. For example, the intelligent completion
thingy works but does not provide an explanation of the methods etc...
I was wondering is there a plug-in that can enhance VS2003's
Javascript development ability?

Any comments/suggestions/user-experiences much, much appreciated.

Cheers & thanks
Al.

I use VS2003 every day for JavaScript development and find
it to be an excellent debugger, but that's all. It won't help
you when you're writing code with auto-complete of variables
and classnames and object properties like you'd get with for
example Eclipse. Perhaps the newer versions of VS implement
that better but I really don't know, I haven't tried them. I
know that the Firefox debugger Firebug is moving towards being
a complete and true IDE for JavaScript and gets better all the
time. They've exceeded VS2003 in most areas by now and are
actively trying hard to make it be everything we need. If you're
used to Eclipse for Java development, there's a plugin called
Aptana for JavaScript. I've installed it but haven't got around
to exploring it's capabilities yet.