Debugging Silverlight in IE8 (on Windows 7)

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I've recently moved to Windows 7 RC and I couldn't be happier. Its a great OS...but there is one annoying side effect.  The new IE8 auto recovery mode kills the session if the website becomes unresponsive.  Cool if you're on a dead site, but remarkable bad if you're trying to debug code.

IE8 Recovery 

I was looking for a workaround when Pascal Pare from Microsoft came to the rescue.  There is a registry setting that can enable/disable the feature. By default it is enabled.  The key is:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Recovery]
"AutoRecover"=dword:00000000

 

Setting the AutoRecover to "2" enables it (the default value) and setting it to "0" disables it.  Hope this helps!

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"The new IE8 auto recovery mode kills the session if the website becomes responsive."

That's actually a pretty good feature. There's nothing I hate more than a responsive website!

Matt (Posted Saturday, May 09, 2009 )

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Matt,

Of course its a good feature, but it gets in the way of development since IE8 thinks my debugging is killing the tab...so it stops it so I can't debug Silverlight (or JavaScript). This is for developers only...and you could make it a switch to turn on and off as necessary.

Shawn Wildermuth (Posted Saturday, May 09, 2009 )

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no registry hack needed. Tools...Internet Options...Advanced tab -- 'Enable Automatic Crash Recovery'

timheuer (Posted Saturday, May 09, 2009 )

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Matt was referring to the typo: should be "un"responsive. might as well not fix it for fun now :)

Sanket (Posted Sunday, May 10, 2009 )

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Sanket,

Ah...missed that...fixed now.

Shawn Wildermuth (Posted Sunday, May 10, 2009 )


 



 
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