<commit_before><properties
   pageTitle="Debug your app built with Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova | Cordova"
   description="description"
   services="na"
   documentationCenter=""
   authors="Chuxel"
   tags=""/>
<tags
   ms.service="na"
   ms.devlang="javascript"
   ms.topic="article"
   ms.tgt_pltfrm="mobile-multiple"
   ms.workload="na"
   ms.date="09/10/2015"
   ms.author="clantz"/>
# Debug your app built with Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova

Visual Studio brings a seamless and common tooling experience for developing Cordova apps across app types and device platforms. For platform-specific differences, see [Debugging features by platform](#Debugging features by platform).

When developing Apache Cordova apps in Visual Studio, you can use diagnostic tools such as the Visual Studio debugger, the DOM Explorer, and the JavaScript Console to fix problems in your apps.

This article matches the steps of the Cordova [Video tutorial](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=534729) on debugging. The steps match video content that follows the introduction of the tools and features (approximately four minutes from the start).  If you want steps to debug for a particular platform, see [Debugging features by platform](#Debugging features by platform).

### Use the diagnostic tools

To use diagnostic tools, you must:

1.  [Install Visual Studio 2015](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=397606) with Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova.

2.  If you want to follow the steps in this tutorial, download the [AngularJS ToDoList sample](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=398516), unzip it, and open the solution (.sln file) in Visual Studio.<commit_msg>minor edits<commit_after><properties
   pageTitle="Debug your app built with Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova | Cordova"
   description="description"
   services="na"
   documentationCenter=""
   authors="Chuxel"
   tags=""/>
<tags
   ms.service="na"
   ms.devlang="javascript"
   ms.topic="article"
   ms.tgt_pltfrm="mobile-multiple"
   ms.workload="na"
   ms.date="09/10/2015"
   ms.author="clantz"/>
# Debug your app built with Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova

Visual Studio brings a seamless and common tooling experience for developing Cordova apps across app types and device platforms. For platform-specific differences, see [Debugging features by platform](#Debugging features by platform).

When developing Apache Cordova apps in Visual Studio, you can use diagnostic tools such as the Visual Studio debugger, the DOM Explorer, and the JavaScript Console to fix problems in your apps.

This article matches the steps of the Cordova [Video tutorial](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=534729) on debugging. The steps match video content that follows the introduction of the tools and features (approximately four minutes from the start).  If you want steps to debug for a particular platform, see [Debugging features by platform](#Debugging features by platform).

### Use the diagnostic tools

To use Visual Studio to debug your Cordova apps, you must:

1.  [Install Visual Studio 2015](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=397606) with Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova.

2.  If you want to follow the steps in this tutorial, download the [AngularJS ToDoList sample](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=398516), unzip it, and open the solution (.sln file) in Visual Studio.
{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.08220786846741045, 'fraction_numerical': 0.018790369935408103, 'mean_word_length': 4.745362563237774, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 7, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 7, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 2, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
{'dir': 'git-commits-cleaned', 'id': '6608857', 'n_tokens_mistral': 949, 'n_tokens_neox': 879, 'n_words': 401}