Editing HTA files with VS2005

Editing HTA files with VS2005 - debugging

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Rich Milburn [MVP] - 29 Dec 2005 15:25 GMT

Hi - I have been creating some HTA files for various Windows deployment and
configuration tasks, and I found that VS2005 does a pretty good job of it.
But I saw a real programmer run through a VB project's code using F8 or
something and he set break points and all that... I would love to be able to
do that with vbscript and HTA files, but I cannot figure out how to do it.
Is it Attach to Process? I'm having a difficult time even finding any info
on Attach to Process, much less editing HTA files in VS.

Thanks
Rich

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Rich Milburn [MVP] - 29 Dec 2005 21:58 GMT

I answered my own question... I added a msgbox line at the beginning of the
script so it would pause, added a breakpoint to the next line, and ran the
hta. Then switched to VS2005, Ctrl+Alt+P to attach to process, choose
mshta.exe process, and click OK on my msgbox. It stops at the breakpoint,
and I can step through with F11, point at variables and see their values,
etc! Awesome! I wish I had figured this out months ago.
Rich

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> Hi - I have been creating some HTA files for various Windows deployment
> and configuration tasks, and I found that VS2005 does a pretty good job of
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> Thanks
> Rich

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