Chapter 5. Debugging Visual Basic 2010 Applications

In This Chapter

Quick Recap: Debugging Overview Preparing an Example Debugging Instrumentation Debugger Visualizers Debugging in Code

Debugging is one of the most important tasks in your developer life. Debugging enables you to investigate for errors and analyze the application execution flow over an object’s state. Visual Studio 2010 offers powerful tools for making debugging an easier task. In this chapter you get details about the Visual Studio instrumentation, and you also learn how to make your code suitable to interact better with the debugger. Remember that some improvements introduced by Microsoft to the 2010 edition are specific to particular technologies (such as WPF or the Task Parallel Library) and therefore will eventually be described in the appropriate chapters. In this chapter you find information regarding the generality of Visual Basic applications. Chapter 2, “Getting Started with the Visual Studio 2010 IDE,” provides an overview of the most common debugging tasks whereas in this chapter you learn about more advanced debugging tools and techniques available in the IDE. Be sure you read Chapter 2 before going on with this one.