@Mr_Waffle said:

I'm actually going to try VS now. Any idea if I can get NodeBB to work on Azure with it, without requiring setting up a whole VM for it

Edit: I'm also getting some errors when debugging, none when running as release. The string package has some issues for me.

Yes,the string package has some issues for me too.

@sunqi 安装NPM依赖包的时候，有的包会需要Python2.7版本来编译。你去官网上下一个就好。
另外，作者已经fix了我这个帖子的中的问题了。再clone源代码的时候，就不会出现啦。

I use nodejstools for visual studio 2013,but there's a lot errors when I debug NodeBB,and there's no errors when I ran NodeBB without debuging(Ctrl + F5).

@Scuzz thanks,I fix it easily.

I installed python 2.7,node 0.10.23,redis(another linux machine).
And I clone the NodeBB source code to my local machine.

When I run node app I got the errors:

fs.js:427
  return binding.open(pathModule._makeLong(path), stringToFlags(flags), mode);
                 ^
Error: ENOENT, no such file or directory 'D:\node\NodeBB-master\node_modules\nodebb-plugin-mentions\static\plugins\menti
ons\autofill.js'
    at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:427:18)
    at Object.fs.readFileSync (fs.js:284:15)
    at D:\node\NodeBB-master\node_modules\uglify-js\tools\node.js:77:22
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at Object.exports.minify (D:\node\NodeBB-master\node_modules\uglify-js\tools\node.js:74:15)
    at Object.Meta.js.minify (D:\node\NodeBB-master\src\meta.js:318:24)
    at D:\node\NodeBB-master\src\meta.js:297:16
    at D:\node\NodeBB-master\node_modules\async\lib\async.js:533:17
    at D:\node\NodeBB-master\node_modules\async\lib\async.js:119:25
    at D:\node\NodeBB-master\node_modules\async\lib\async.js:24:16