Javascript console as part of Windows 8 Modern UI app

Question

Is it possible to insert the JavaScript console of IE (F12 tools) in to the front end of the Modern UI app?

Thanks,

Niranjan

Answer 1

Do you want to provide the console for your end users or do you want to "debug" another app that you don't have the source codes for?

Answer 2

I want to provide a console to the end user.

Answer 3

No, this is not possible.

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Answer 4

To provide a console you could just add an input field, execute the code the user enters using:

(new Function(input.value))()

and add the input to an internal history buffer, which can be circled through using the up/down arrows in the input field.

Of course more sophisticated stuff, like displaying the result of the user executed code in a tree-like object graph is more difficult :)