Tips and suggestions for troubleshooting and debugging WPF

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This article covers many techniques you can use to troubleshoot and debug your WPF application, including binding errors, exception handling, inspecting the VisualTree and logging.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Binding Errors
  • 1. Changing Trace Level for All in Options
  • 2. Changing Trace Level on a Specific Binding
• WPF Tree Visualizer
  • Other inspection tools
• Inner Exceptions
• Unhandled Exceptions
  • Application.DispatcherUnhandledException
  • AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException
  • TaskScheduler.UnobservedTaskException
  • The catch-all Unhandled Handler!
  • Drilling down to include the Inner Exceptions
• Commenting Out and Binary Chopping
• Logging
  • Logging Level
  • Repository Choice
  • Why Reinvent the Wheel
    • Log4Net
    • ELMAH
    • NLog
    • NuGet
• See Also
• Community Resources

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a joy to develop rich user experiences with. Animations, bindings, reskinnable codeless interfaces, all backed up with traditional .Net programming all make for a very rapid development cycle. However, when something goes wrong in that autogenerated super-sexy front-end, it is not always clear where the problem is.
This article will cover some of the methods for analyzing your WPF application, troubleshooting issues, and debugging seemingly obscure errors.

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Lots of great suggestions for debugging and troubleshooting WPF/XAML issues.