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Debug VBScript / VBS files in Visual Studio 2010

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I needed to be able to step through a VBScript file that was being run in an environment that I did not have on my machine and this environment did not have a debug environment that I could use to step through the VBScript being executed.  The VBScript was simply looking to see if a folder exists on a network drive and if the folder did exist, create the folder.   Then the script would copy some files to the network drive / folder location.  My machine and user id had access to this network drive so I could run this VBScript from my machine. So placed the VBScript file (script.vbs) on my computer at C:\Projects\VBS\. Then I ran the Visual Studio 2010 Command Prompt as Admin and changed the directory to the above location: I then typed in the following and selected the enter key to run the Visual Studio Just-In-Time Debugger: cscript /x /d script.vbs The following will be presented: Be sure you select the "New instance of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010" and selec