PeteL's Blog

A couple of days ago, I got an email from the guys at DebugBar letting me know that they had just released their Beta1 for Debug Bar 5.0.  They've got a pretty good tool bar for doing web design and web development in IE.  Their DebugBar adds features like a DOM Inspector, an HTTP Inspector, a JavaScript Console and Inspector, an HTML Validator among other things.  It's free for personal use, and the commercial license is easy to obtain.

There are a couple of other tools worth pointing out as well

• Fiddler2 a web debugging proxy written by one of the PM's on the IE team
• IE Developer Tool Bar the Microsoft IE Developer Toolbar.  There's lots of info on it here
• IE6 and IE7 Virtual PC images
• Visual Web Developer Express 2008 has great JavaScript debugging features
• AjaxView a great tool from MS Research for remotely monitoring web2.0 applications for doing perf work
• Nikhil's Web Development Helper is an add-on that helps AJAX and ASP.NET developers see what is going on with their code

Hope this helps!

PEte