The Visual Studio 2008 debugger has been enhanced by the addition of the following features:

• Remote debugging support for Windows Vista.

  You can remote debug to or from a platform running the Windows Vista operating system. For more information, see How to: Set Up Remote Debugging.

• Better support for debugging multithreaded applications.

  Improvements to the Threads window, flagging threads of special interest, thread markers in a source window, and switching threads in a source window. For more information, see Debugging Multithreaded Applications.

• Debugging support for LINQ programming.

  You can debug LINQ queries, including LINQ to SQL Queries. For more information, see Debugging LINQ.

• Debugging support for Windows Communications Foundation.

  For more information, see Debugging WCF Services.

• Better support for script debugging, including:

  • Client-side script files generated from server-side script now appear in Solution Explorer. The Script Explorer window is no longer needed and has been removed. For more information, see How to: View Script Documents.

  • Breakpoints set in server-side script files are automatically mapped to corresponding breakpoints in client-side script files. For more information, see How to: Set Breakpoints in Script.

  • Easy attach to script processes. For more information, see How to: Attach to Script.

• Improvements to the Debugger Automation model.

  Improvements to Tracepoints, Modules Collection, Exception Settings, and symbol path manipultation.

• Better function evaluation.

  Improvements to function evaluation detection. Function evaluation now aborts if the debugger detects evaluation is waiting for a frozen thread.