This is the second installment of my developer arsenal. Be sure to check out the previous article:

• Developer Arsenal Tool #1: Nikhil's Web Development Helper

The tool that I will be profiling today is the  IE Developer Toolbar. It has many features that somewhat overlap the features in Nikhil's Web Development Helper.   However, these features are ones that I did not profile in the article about Tool #1.  This is primarily because I usually lean towards the IE Developer Toolbar for the following features:

• Page Element Selection
• Element Attribute and Style Information
• Source View Isolation with CSS
• Tab Index Identification
• Ruler and Color Picker

These are the features that we will explore and it is honestly the tip of the iceberg with what this tool offers. More...

The times have changed; with the advent of newer technologies such as AJAX with its partial rendering, a more structured (OO) approach to JavaScript as well as more complicated web page layouts it has become more difficult to evaluate, debug and visualize the results of your development.  That is way I have come to rely on some invaluable tools other than Visual Studio and notepad.  Therefore, I will start my targeted ramblings with a series of articles profiling the tools on which I have come to depend.  The first, and to me the most valuable, is Nikhil’s Web Development Helper.   So how does it help?!

Consider the following debugging and development challenges:

• JavaScript debugging with full call stack information
• ASP.Net AJAX Sys.Debug output
• HTTP logging with JSON format display
• JavaScript class browser
• JavaScript Immediate Window

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