Javascript breakpoints in Visual Studio 2017

Question

I just installed Visual Studio 2017. After starting an ASP.NET MVC application I get the message that chrome debugging in Visual Studio is enabled.

But my breakpoints in Visual Studio won't hit. The breakpoints on Razor code seems to be working but Javascript does not. The breakpoints are not fully red like they should be. A restart, rebuild don't seem to take any effect.

I have the following code example

@Html.Partial("_Test", Model.Test) // debugging works here

<script>
    var i = 1;
    console.log(i); // debugging does not work here or above
</script>

@section scripts {
    <script>
        var a = 11;
        console.log(a); // debugging does not work here or above
    </script>
}

I don't have the chrome debugging console open and I checked the option in Visual Studio ('Enable Javascript debugging..') which is enabled.

According to this blog post I thought this should work: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2016/11/21/client-side-debugging-of-asp-net-projects-in-google-chrome/

Am I missing something here? Could it be that this is not working in Visual Studio 2017 somehow?

I only have one extension and that is Resharper, but I guess this is not an issue.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42669163/javascript-breakpoints-in-visual-studio-2017

Answer 1

This feature does not work for javascript code inside a *.cshtml file, but only for code in separate *.js (or *.ts) files.

Notice how the breakpoint in the JavaScript file is active, while the breakpoint in the Razor view is not.

I have also noticed that breakpoints will not be hit for JavaScript files when JavaScript code is executed during page load when the page is loaded the first time in the current Chrome session. Breakpoints will only work after the document has finished loading once.