“The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend” – Ten lessons, so far, toward becoming a Visual Studio Debugging Ninja
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 10 – Debugging Threads
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 9 – The Set Next Statement
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 8 – The Garbage Collector – GC
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 7 – Advanced Techniques – Using Object ID
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 5 – Using TracePoints
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 4 – Debugging Threads
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 3 – BreakPoint HitCount
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 2 – Breakpoints in SubExpressions
The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend- Intro – Lesson 1
“Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the sense or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities and I think debugging is an art form. There's nothing more beautiful (almost nothing) than watching your errant code expose it's semi-flawed algorithmic beauty. And nothing appeals to my emotions more than make my code more robust and more efficient after watching the debugger execute it one line at a time.
John Robbins is the pre-eminant debugger of today. You may check out his book for more information. Much of this material is based on his work.
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Enter Visual Studio 2008
This blog is about Visual Studio. So the tips and techniques I talk about are things you can do with Visual Studio.
Download the sample project – debugging.zip
Here are the topics we want to cover
Stack Window Breakpoints
Sub Expression Breakpoints
Quickly Breaking on a Function
Breakpoint Hit Count
Breakpoint Condition
Assertions on the Fly
Filter Breakpoint Modifier
Tracepoints
The Amazing Data Tip
Calling Methods in the Watch Window
Testing Tricks
Make Object ID
Generational Objects
Set Next Statement
Threading Help
Setting up .NET Reference Source Code Stepping
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Some light Monday reading… ;)
This is a great series of articles, highly diagramed and to the point, on using the debugging in Visual Studio to its fullest.
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VS 2008 Tracepoints – Debug output without touching your code (Say goodbye to Debug.Write ?)
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4 comments:
Of course many of these examples just works with C#! When will Microsoft post tutorials which works with C++ - or better yet, make all debugging tools work with BOTH C# and C++!?
It's frustrating to hear talk of C#, C#, C#, C#, C#, C#, C#, C#, C#, C#, C#, C#, C#, C#, C#, C#, C#, C#, C#, C#, C#, C#, C#, C#, C#, C#, all the time!
These techniques work with all languages. The debugger is language agnostic, for the most part.
Bruno Terkaly (author)
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Not all of them. I failed to make lesson 2 work with C++, and I do use Visual Studio 2008.
As much as tools help, there is a psychology to it. This post might be of interest to your readers:
"Tips Tricks, Traps and Tools: # 3b of many: The Art of Troubleshooting almost Anything"
http://blog.vkistudios.com/index.cfm/2009/5/6/Tips-Tricks-Traps-and-Tools--3b-of-many-The-Art-of-Troubleshooting-almost-Anything
Brian Katz - VKI Studios
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