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Asked: 2026-05-27T02:19:25+00:00

In the VS2010 IDE when a breakpoint (or an error) is hit, it opens

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In the VS2010 IDE when a breakpoint (or an error) is hit, it opens a read-only [dynamic] version of the external JavaScript file I referenced. My workflow would be vastly improved if I could immediately edit this file, and refresh the browser. That is as opposed to digging up the original JS file opening it, finding the correct line and editing there.

I only know that this is possible because I was able to do this on my old work computer configuration, but for the life of me I can’t duplicate it at home.

Has anyone made this work? Perhaps an extension? or maybe it has to with the way the files are referenced, or my basehref tag, or url rewriting.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This happens when the base href specifies a domain other than localhost. My issue was that to enable a local environment for Facebook JS, I need my domain in the url. So I set up my host file to remap localhost.mydomain.com to localhost.

    When the Visual Studio IDE encounters a file reference which is something other than localhost, it does not attempt to grab the local file since it assumes (correctly in most cases) that it is being served from another site. In these cases it loads a file as [dynamic] and readonly.

    Here is the test case:

    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>        
        <base href="http://localhost.mydomain.com/virtual-directory/" />    
        <script type="text/javascript" src="test.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
</html>

    Any breakpoint within test.js will result in opening a readonly dynamic file.

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