Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Must have Internet Explorer add-on for developers

Developer uses tools to make life easier. One such tool is Web Development helper. This is one of the best tool ever designed.
It has several common features:

    * DOM inspector
    * Screen capture
    * Page details viewer
    * Script debugging with script console and script class viewer
    * Immediate window

And a few helpful ASP.NET related features:

    * ViewState viewer that show information in raw, decoded, and parsed forms
    * Show trace information
    * View and manage cache
    * Restart application

One of its feature, HTTP Logging, logs HTTP and HTTPS requests initiated by the browser or Ajax scripts. It provides all the information about Ajax postbacks shown under request and response details. That means We can actually see the information that is sent to the server and can see the markup or JSON objects that are sent back to the client.

Web Development helper works with IE version 6 and above, and is completely free. It requires .NET Framework 2.0 to be installed.
You can see more details and download this tool from Nikhil's Website.