Visual Studio Just-In-Time Debugger prompts to select "Possible Debuggers",
only "New instance of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010" is available,
I tick "Set the currently selected debugger as the default", click "Yes",

but, the dialog keeps being displayed every time.
I am debugging JavaScript in IE8 on Windows 7 x64.

How do I bypass this prompt?
These registry values do not solve the problem:

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug]
"Auto"="1"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug]
"Auto"="1"

Visual Studio Just-In-Time Debugger prompts to select "Possible Debuggers",
only "New instance of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010" is available,
I tick "Set the currently selected debugger as the default", click "Yes",

but, the dialog keeps being displayed every time.
I am debugging JavaScript in IE8 on Windows 7 x64.

How do I bypass this prompt?
These registry values do not solve the problem:

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug]
"Auto"="1"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug]
"Auto"="1"

• javascript
• visual-studio
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• Also, why does the prompt appear beneath the current windows? – Carlos Gil Commented Sep 25, 2010 at 1:34
• I have Windows 7 x64, too. And this prompt is driving me nuts. – Linus Kleen Commented Jan 18, 2011 at 19:39
• What's the target application (debuggee)? .NET application or native application? – Thomson Commented Jan 18, 2011 at 21:22
• Is your intention to use the default debugger always, or would, say, generating a crash dump instead be acceptable? – Paul Williams Commented Jan 18, 2011 at 23:21
• @Paul Williams, I want to debug a JavaScript on HTML on an ActiveX browser. Basically I just one a prompt to debug and see the offending line of code. Just ONE prompt, yes or no. – Carlos Gil Commented Jan 20, 2011 at 3:29

2 Answers 2

I actually just did this the other day.

In the following registry key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Messenger\Client]

Create 2 new DWORDs (Right-click --> New --> DWORD Value)

PreventAutoRun and PreventRun

Set both values to 1

Have you tried doing so directly from Visual Studio?

http://msdn.microsoft./en-us/library/5hs4b7a6.aspx

Scroll to "Enabling or disabling Just-In-Time debugging".

You can disable it only for Script if that's what you want.

Let me know how this works for you.