I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I just love being able to debug javascripts and put breakpoints at runtime with Visual Studio or with the free Visual Web Developer.
I have been talking about threading and threading patterns for a while now but somehow fell short on how to debug them. Today we will look into tips as well as tools available in the Visual Studio IDE that enables us to effectively debug multi-threaded applications like non-threaded ones. Tip #1: Always...
My current task in our project is majorly in MSSQL. I wanted to debug a chain of stored procedures and I have just found out that MS has removed debugging tools out of SQL Server 2005 client tools and relied more on visual studio's. I have experienced debugging both from SQL Server 2005 Query Analyzer...
i previously have an experience on debugging stored procedures especially those that involve dynamic sql generation and execution. my experience told me that debugging stored procedure of this type is better with visual studio compared to query analyzer. i encountered a problem with query analyzer before...
i have read before that .NET 2.0 enhances debugging with the new debugging attributes. most useful one that i have seen is the ability to filter out all the members of a class instance as displayed in debugging windows (watch, locals, etc.) using DebuggerBrowsable attribute. i just read an article tonite...
When you just want to watch for the result of a particular operation, like (this.Right - this.Left)/2 you don't need to copy and paste it in the Immediate Window or launch QuickWatch with the expression selected. You just have to select the said expression and point the mouse over it.
Some control properties where dropped. Forms still have them in InitializeComponent. Form is loaded at designtime with an attached debugger instance (devenv.exe). CodeDomSerializer class tries to deserialize the said property set. A MissingMethodException was raised. Attached debugger could not give...
The Visual Studio Debugger is one of the developer’s closest friend but befriending VS takes a lot of effort especially if you are just new in using it. I myself took time before I can fully exploit the VS debugging features and I want to share them to you. You might encounter an application raising...