Visual Studio 2008 and JavaScript: the worst couple ever

We are using Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition at work and it is great for our C# plus SQLServer application, but I am working entirely with JavaScript and every time my files grow up "too much" I start having headache scrolling up and down thousands of line of code.

A basic function that even a small editor like Notepad++ has, the plus/minus sign to close functions closures, does not exists.

You should try to create your own macro, in VB "of course", and call it every time.
As alternative, I added the file extension js in the option with HTML Editor as default editor to let me do something like this

//#region MyConstructor <script>

... my code

//#endregion </stript>

Above start and end comment allows me to close code blocks and everything inside will be highlighted because the editor consider it as an HTML JavaScript tag:
it's true, HTML has open/close blocks while JavaScript does not.

The "fantastic" debugger is nothing that better than the one you can find inside Internet Explorer 8, the only point is that it is integrated with the rest of the project so you can debug both JavaScript and C# at the same time ... without this big effort.

I use FireBug and/or Chrome console indeed, since I do not need to monitor C# that much, and that's it, client side debug feature completely useless under IE ( and I downloaded the version 8 beta 2 yesterday so I can use its debugger instead of launching another local server for client side debug ... )

The intellisense sucks, it does not work automatically as is for C# or other languages or as is for Eclipse or Aptana, you have to put useless syntax in the top of the file to tell the big IDE where are other files.

The suggestion is so clever that if you have a property whose name starts with el, the IDE will autmatically put an else

myObject.else // by the ide

The internal parser does not recognize properly functions as objects, and inheritance is not part of the suggestion ... you should try to disable it if you want to code faster instead of correct IDE suggestions.

In few words, I still wonder why Microsoft is doing everything to discourage the usage of JavaScript and I can't wait to find a valid alternative to integrate my JavaScript projects into source control without being constricted to use the best IDE for C# and the worst ever for JavaScript: Visual Studio 2008

Kind Regards