shuashy

After some digging in the internet and trial-and-error, I finally managed Visual Studio Community 2019 to work as my debugger for TIA V16! I only wanted the Just-In-Time Debugger window to appear if I wrote a bad script, and not use the debugger to read the rest of the code to troubleshoot, but hey, opening the debugger also works unlike with visual studio 2008 in Windows 10. Most of you might find this basic, but I still want to share how to do it. So here are the steps:

1. Download the latest version of Visual Studio. A quick google search will get you to the download link from Microsoft.

2. Once you run the installer, under the Workloads tab, select the "ASP.NET and web-development" package. This enables VBScript language support in the just-in-time debugger. On the installation details pane, you can deselect all optional components under ASP.NET. This will save you about 1GB of storage space.

3. In the "Individual Components" tab, find and select the "Just-In-Time Debugger". You can go ahead and start the installation at this point but you can further reduce the ASP.NET package by deselecting the F# and Razor language supports and all web server components. I didn't do it because I didn't know about it and am too lazy to modify my current installation.

4. Once installed, launce Visual Studio then click on "continue without code". From the Menu, click on Debug, then click Options. A dialog box will appear then go to Debugging > Just-In-Time. Enable Script then click OK, and you are good to go.

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As mentioned by Captive Engineer, do not run the simulator with script debugger in TIA Portal, it will not find the visual studio 2019 as a script debugger. The Just-In-Time Debugger will work just fine even when you run a normal simulator.

Hope this helps!

 Set obj = HmiRuntime.Screens("1081_Debug").ScreenItems("Button_L_A_Tail_rdy")

The screen named 1081_Debug is present in my project.

Does everyone have a solution?

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Split from VB express 2013 desktop and TIA portalV13 No script debugger installed.