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Plugin Web Development Helper lets you keep track of the Ajax code in Internet Explorer, which works similarly to the plugin Firebug for Firefox. Anieto2k says that its characteristics are the DOM inspector of all the elements, the image capture of page log of HTTP requests, among others and is available for download.
For client-side script-based development, Web Development Helper provides HTTP tracing capabilities, as well as much improved script diagnostics, and tracing facilities, as well as an immediate window.
For ASP.NET developers, when developing against your site on your local development machine, this tool provides the ability to view ViewState, ASP.NET trace messages, contents of your cache etc.
The ASP.NET diagnostics features work when the application is on http://localhost, in other words, it does not allow a remote user to interact with the server application (this is for security reasons).
Key features of "Web Development Helper":
- A warning when either debug or trace have been turned on. Ability to hide trace information from the page, and view it in a separate dialog, so it does not get in the way of your pages layout.
- Ability to view the pages view state (in various forms: raw, parsed, and decoded) to help you optimize your state management logic.
- Ability to view items stored in cache, and remove them for testing purposes.
- Ability to shutdown the application (unloading the associated appdomain), in order to test starting it from a clean state.
- Ability to log all HTTP (and HTTPS) traffic between the browser and your server, and view request and response details, including those performed via XMLHttpRequest.
- Ability to view the live HTML DOM using a DOM Inspector that allows viewing all elements, selected elements, or elements matching ID or CSS class. For each element, you can see the markup, attributes, and style attributes.
- Ability to view rich error information for script errors (full call stack, script URL and line number), as well as a script immediate window to execute some script against the current document.
Web Development Helper works against IE6+, and requires the .NET Framework 2.0 or greater to be installed on the machine.
Once installed, the tool can be activated using the Tools | Web Development Helper command. You can also customize your browser's toolbar to add a button for this command to facilitate frequest use.