JScript Blog
Blogs from the JScript team in Microsoft
Steps Toward Creating Compatible ECMAScript 5 Implementations
As we’ve discussed in the past, Microsoft has been actively involved in the developing the...
Author: GauravS Date: 06/29/2009
Native JSON Support in IE8 and Tracking the ECMAScript Fifth Edition Draft Specification
UPDATEMicrosoft has released an update that addresses most of the issues discussed below. Refer...
Author: GauravS Date: 06/22/2009
Serializing the value of empty DOM elements using native JSON in IE8
With native JSON support enabled in IE8, users can now take advantage of the built-in JSON.stringify...
Author: GauravS Date: 06/22/2009
Versioning Language Features in JScript
With Internet Explorer 8 we introduced several new JScript language features including native JSON...
Author: GauravS Date: 04/16/2009
A Major Milestone in JavaScript Standardization
In the world of web standards, JavaScript is known as ECMAScript and maintenance of its definition...
Author: GauravS Date: 04/09/2009
What’s new in JScript for IE8
During Beta1 and Beta2 pre-releases of IE8, we’ve blogged about the performance optimizations done...
Author: GauravS Date: 03/24/2009
Internet Explorer 8 Final Available Now
Internet Explorer 8 Final is now available in 25 languages. IE8 makes what real people do on the web...
Author: GauravS Date: 03/19/2009
Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate Now Available
Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate Is Now Available. Here is post that would help you Upgrade to...
Author: GauravS Date: 01/26/2009
JScript Debugger in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2
In Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 JScript team has focused on improving developer productivity. You can...
Author: deepak.jain Date: 09/17/2008
Allen Wirfs-Brock and Pratap Lakshman on "Harmony", ECMAScript 3.1, IE 8, and more
The 4th episode of the Open Web Podcast featured Allen, Pratap , Dion, and John discussing the Open...
Author: don.raman Date: 09/11/2008
ECMAScript 3 and beyond - the road to "Harmony"
The current ECMAScript specification was completed in 1999 and certainly needed to be updated to...
Author: don.raman Date: 08/20/2008
GC Improvements in JScript for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
Hello Friends, Today I am going to talk about some of the Garbage Collector improvement we have...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/23/2008
Performance Optimization of Arrays - Part II
Hello Friends, Hope you have read part I of this topic which I posted few days ago. If not then I...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/09/2008
Reading XML File With JScript
I am Titus working as a SDET in JScript team. Sometime back I came across a situation where the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/02/2008
Performance Optimization of Arrays - Part I
Hello Friends, Have you observed better performance of Array operations in IE8 than IE7? If not, try...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/26/2008
Insight into String Concatenation in JScript
Hello Friends, Have you read my post on the String Concatenation issue? If yes, then I can sense...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/19/2008
IE8 Script Debugger - Under the Hood
IE8 Beta1 (download available here) now includes a Script debugger that is part of IE8 Developer...
Author: Sheetal Date: 03/18/2008
JScript Debugger in Internet Explorer 8
As Shreesh mentioned in his blog, Internet Explorer 8 has a built-in JScript debugger. With Internet...
Author: deepak.jain Date: 03/13/2008
JScript in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers
Making developers more productive through the design, development, and debug phases of web...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/05/2008
Thank you - Smartsheet !
We are constantly looking to engage with our customers on this blog and understand their...
Author: don.raman Date: 01/22/2008
JScript errors as warnings in Visual Studio 2008 RTM
Now Visual Studio 2008 code named Orcas is out of door with incredible features. The most highly...
Author: rneela Date: 12/31/2007
JScript Performance Update for IE6 users
Sometime back Don blogged about Windows Script 5.7 release. We got lots of feedback on this, people...
Author: Suresh Jayabalan Date: 11/29/2007
ECMAScript, Mashups, and Security
A mashup composes a web application by combining programs and data services from multiple...
Author: don.raman Date: 11/29/2007
Writing for JScript Intellisense in VS 2008
Since we release JSript intellisense in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, there has been some queries on...
Author: Sameerch Date: 11/08/2007
Classes in JScript – Part III: Class Hierarchy and Data Encapsulation
In this post I will be discussing how one can achieve Class Hierarchy and Data Encapsulation in...
Author: don.raman Date: 10/31/2007
ECMAScript 3 and beyond
The web has become the primary global computing platform tying together hundreds of millions of...
Author: don.raman Date: 10/29/2007
Performance issues with "String Concatenation" in JScript.
Hello Friends, I am Jaiprakash and work as a Developer in the Jscript team. There is not much to...
Author: shivaram.p Date: 10/17/2007
Classes in JScript – Part II: Instance Properties / Methods & Class Properties / Methods
In this post I will discuss more about the Instance Properties & Instance Methods and Class...
Author: don.raman Date: 09/30/2007
Appropriate forums to ask questions regarding JScript.
We have created new forum for asking questions related to JScript. The forum link is given below:...
Author: don.raman Date: 09/25/2007
Javascript Intellisense and Coloring Issues in VS 2008 Beta 2
We have come across a couple of installation issues in VS 2008 Beta 2 which broke the new Javascript...
Author: Sameerch Date: 09/24/2007
Classes in Jscript - Part I
I am Ritesh Parikh and have recently moved to Jscript team as a SDET. While starting on Jscript I...
Author: don.raman Date: 09/24/2007
Jscript Run Time Fix for DST 2007 in United States.
Let me take some time to introduce myself. My name is Titus and I am a SDET in JScript team. Today I...
Author: don.raman Date: 09/18/2007
Automatic Update for JScript which is part Windows Script 5.7 release
There has been some request and suggestion that when the JScript team feels that there are so many...
Author: don.raman Date: 09/15/2007
JScript - Managed or Native, JavaScript, ECMAScript - What's what? And references ...
Being a late entrant into the group, I always had questions regarding what’s what of JScript -...
Author: GauravS Date: 09/07/2007
Regular Expression optimization done in Jscript 5.7 release
I modified my last blog many times. I was really amazed at the kind of response I got on this blog....
Author: don.raman Date: 09/05/2007
Windows Script 5.7 released for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server
I have little announcement to make today. Windows Script 5.7 which ships with different flavors of...
Author: don.raman Date: 08/12/2007
Javascript Intellisense in VS 2008 for Silverlight 1.0
Javascript Intellisense is one of the major improvements in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. There is a...
Author: Sameerch Date: 08/07/2007
JScript Syntax Check in Visual Web Developer 2008 Beta2
Visual Web Developer 2008 Beta2 got announced some days back. Lots of authoring enhancement has been...
Author: don.raman Date: 08/03/2007
More Javascript Intellisense with Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
Previous release of Visual Studio "Orcas" debuted the much awaited feature of Javascript...
Author: Sameerch Date: 08/01/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Released!
You probably know by now. Microsoft has announced the release of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and...
Author: Sameerch Date: 08/01/2007
Scope chain of JScript Functions
Scope chain of JScript functions is something programmers find it difficult to understand easily....
Author: don.raman Date: 07/26/2007
Using Jscript based IE Add-On to export data from any website
Often times we browse to a website which has lot of data in tabular format, or we login to secure...
Author: rajesh.bhutani@microsoft.com Date: 07/23/2007
Introducing Managed JScript
It's finally released and I can blog about it. Have been waiting to write about it for some time now...
Author: jitu Date: 05/07/2007
Managed JScript announced
At MIX07 we released a new implementation of JavaScript on top of Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) as...
Author: deepak.jain Date: 05/04/2007
Legacy IE-JScript circular memory leak problem being worked out.
People are already aware of IE-JScript circular memory leak problem. Let me take some time and...
Author: don.raman Date: 05/01/2007
Jscript debugging: Stepwise instructions and video
If you are interested in debugging your Jscript code, then you can use Visual Web Developer (VWD)...
Author: rajesh.bhutani@microsoft.com Date: 04/24/2007
JScript Authoring Support in Visual Studio "Orcas" - Part II
Last month, I talked about the new Intellisense for the JScript language. Well, the March CTP is...
Author: Sameerch Date: 03/02/2007
Watch out for JScript Authoring Support in Visual Studio "Orcas" - Part I
Hello, I am Sameer Chabungbam. For living, I work as a Program Manager in the JScript team at...
Author: Sameerch Date: 02/10/2007
IE Addon - Send selected text as email to anyone in Internet Explorer
We have come up with an addon for Internet Explorer. This add-on adds context sensitive menu when...
Author: don.raman Date: 01/31/2007
Write better JScript code to execute within Internet Explorer (IE)
This is the first ever blog written by me in my entire life time. Let me take some time to introduce...
Author: don.raman Date: 01/24/2007