Visual Studio 2010 cannot debug javascript after uninstalling IE10

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My dev machine got the automatic update from IE9 to IE10. The latter is broken on our development web site, so I uninstalled the IE 10 "update" to revert to IE9.

Visual Studio 2010 will no longer attach its debugger to the browser. I can either debug in IE9 developer mode, or attempt to launch a new instance of VS'10 to debug (but that doesn't work either.)

What can I do to restore the link between VS'10 and IE'09?

EDIT: I get the dialog titled "Visual Studio Just-In-Time Debugger".

"An unhandled exception ('Script Breakpoint') occurred in iexplore.exe [4824]

Possible debuggers: New Instances of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 .... " I cannot attach to the already running instance of VS.

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"Visual Studio 2010 will no longer attach its debugger to the browser." it shows some error? – outcoldman
I uninstalled and reinstalled VS'10 including SP1. Still doesn't work. – Dan Bailiff
I've long since moved on from this development machine. This question should probably be closed or deleted since I can't confirm the solution. – Dan Bailiff

2 Answers

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Try to re-install the .net library.

.Net Library

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This post suggests a solution:

Here's the solution: The key is that the message says the incorrect version of pdm.dll is not registered. Apparently the IE10 install provided a new pdm.dll and the re-install of IE9 did not replace it. I found an older version on another system, copied it to the C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\VS7Debug folder, registered it, and now VS2010 debugging works again.

However, I'm not yet sure how to download the file called for in this solution.