Is there a way to enable the IE8 Developer Tools from inside WebBrowser control in a .NET application

Question

If you have IE8, you may have noticed a really handy feature that MS has added. Hit F12 and Developer Tools, a firebug like debugger, pops up. This is extremely useful for debug

Answer 1

One option is to open a child window from the embedded page, the child window opens in IE and the Developer Tools work, you can then do

window.opener

in the console to refer to the parent and manipulate the page.

Or replace the parents console with the child's and redirect to it.

 var logWindow = window.open();
        logWindow.document.write('\x3Cscript>window.opener.console = console;\x3C/script>
Child Log Window
');
        window.onunload = function () {
            if (logWindow && !logWindow.closed) {
                logWindow.close();
            }
        };