The IDE is comprised of many parts that work together to help you QA your applications. This section gives you a quick overview of those parts you will most likely use during your application quality assurance step.
When you start the IDE for the first time, the main window opens.
In the main window, you can find the menu bar, toolbar, the Running Document tabs, and the status bar. From the menus in the menu bar, you have access to the:
The menus in the menu bar give you access to the most commonly called commands in the IDE and to all of the top-level IDE windows, such as the Source Window, the Log Window, the Snapshot window and the Debugger window.
You can also activate the most commonly called commands in the IDE from various toolbar in the main window.
The space to the bottom of the main window is the IDE status bar, where the status of running commands is displayed. For example, current line and column position is displayed in the status bar.
By Default, the running document windows appears on the left hand side of the IDE and provides a tree view of document currently loaded in Internet Explorer. It's a starting point of many operation, such view source code, add breakpoint...
See IDE User Interface for more detail.
The Source Window is a read-only text editor that is integrated with the Running document window, profiler, and debugger. The Source Window is opened by double-clicking the node of Running document window.
For more information, please see Source View Window.
The Profile menu contains commands for profile applications. You can define triggers to control the workflow of profiler. Once you finish profiling, the snapshot window will show up with statistic data.
For more information, please see Profiler.
The Debug menu in the main window gives you access to the different debug functionalities available in the IDE. You can set breakpoints and watches, step through code, examine and modify variables, examine classes and the call stack, follow threads, and run multiple sessions. You can also use the Debug toolbar or keyboard equivalents to perform the most common debugging actions.
For detail information, please see Debugger.
The Output Window is a spreadsheet with running information, such as JavaScript runtime error stack trace.
See IDE User Interface for more detail.
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