OK -- I've answered my own question -- but what a finding!
Seems that the problem occurs when my desktop image changes. I use WebShots
to put a new desktop image on every 15 minutes. When it changes, the
problem that I've explained initially occurs. I wondered whether the
problem is WebShots or system related. So, I started another debugging
session using the IDE and then via the Display Properties dialog, Desktop
tab, I switched to another background -- sure enough, the IDE debugging
session dropped out.
So, Microsoft, you've got a(nother) bug!
[quoted text, click to view] "Don Bedner" <don.bedner@integic.com> wrote in message
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> Hope I'm in the correct group for this.
>
> I am attempting to debug JavaScript application in Windows IE6 via the
> 2005 IDE.
>
> Through the "Debug" menu option, I select "Attach to Process..." and find
> the IE process supporting my page in the list and double-click it to
> attach to the process. Because I have Debug\Windows\Script Explorer
> turned on, I can see my script in the "Script Explorer" pane. When I
> double-click my page in the list, a new tab is added to the IDE allowing
> me to set break-points, view variables, adjust the instruction pointer,
> etc. Before long, though, the selected entry in the "Script Explorer"
> pane disappears as well as the tab supporting that debugging session in
> the IDE. When this occurs, I attempt to detach from the "hidden/missing"
> process via \Debug\Detach All and run the attach steps again as described
> previously. Sometimes it works and the process is re-attached and
> sometimes it doesn't in which case I have to close the page that I'm
> trying to debug and start all over -- some that is a great pain in the
> A$$.
>
> Is there a way to stop the "detachment" with some internal IDE or IE
> setting so I don't lose my debugging session?
>
> Is this a bug in the IDE?
>
> Is there a way to re-attach consistently?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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