Get rid of [dynamic] JavaScript views in Visual Studio

Question

Since I installed Visual Studio 2010 from scratch about 2 months ago, it behaves slightly different when debugging JavaScript code being run in IE.

• When I set a breakpoint, it opens a duplicate of the view with the term "[dynamic]" in the header and marks the breakpoint in there.
• When a JavaScript error happens during execution, it does the same before it marks the line of code that threw the error.
• This "dynamic" view is editable but edits have no effect - they are not saved to the file.

I find this behavior pretty uncomfortable. Everytime I notice an error in the code during debugging, I happen to fix it in the dynamic view. I hit save. VS does not complain. Next I refresh the page in IE, and - bang - the changes are lost, it loads the untouched old version again.

I haven't been able to find out how I can turn these views off. Before I re-installed Visual Studio it did not do that. It would only create "dynamic" views for script found in inline script tags in HTML files.

Answer 1

Try this IE > Internet Options > Settings (under browsing history) > Check for new version of stored pages : Every time I visit the webpage.

This works for me in IE10.

Other option is to open Developer tools and select cache option Always Refresh from Server as show in the image below