How to debug vbscript with Visual Studio Community (2019)

Question

I'd like to find a free solution to debug vbscripts, and I tried Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition. I did the very basic installation with only one additional component, the Just-In-Time debugger. I ran all the following steps as administrator.

I have created the file Script2.vbs with this very simple script:

a=1
b=1/0
c=1

I started the command line (cmd.exe) and entered cscript.exe /x "C:\...\Script2.vbs

The script is executed and fails as expected at line 2 but

the problem is that the Just-In-Time debugger doesn't start.

(I expect the popup which is below "The Visual Studio Just-In-Time Debugger window appears" in this Microsoft article)

I have found in this question about the previous version of the Community Edition that there should be the option "Script", but I don't have it:

Note also that if I try to start the script from Visual Studio Community, the menu Debug > Start debugging is grayed out:

My main question is:

Is the feature of debugging scripts turned off with Visual Studio Community Edition?

(which leads to the second question: is there a solution to debug VBS scripts for free?)

Answer 1

If you are still interested, there is a way to fix Visual Studio Community. It's likely some missing pre-requisites. Therefore you need to "Modify" the installed options and find "Script" debugging options in the Individual Components setup.

For example this is my minimum set of components.