Visual Studio Essential Training: 06 Debug and Troubleshoot Code

Learn how to find and resolve the bugs in your code with the powerful debugging tools in Visual Studio 2015.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files

1. The Philosophy of Debugging and Troubleshooting Code

• Understand the debugging vocabulary
• Investigate common debug scenarios
• Understand defect categories

2. Use the Debug Tools in Visual Studio

• Understand the debug build settings
• Using breakpoints effectively
• Tour the debug tool windows
• Stepping through code in the debugger
• Edit and Continue
• Run to Click: Visual Studio 2017
• Exception Helper: Visual Studio 2017
• Debugging exceptions
• Work with DataTips
• Explore info with data visualizers
• Beyond the basic breakpoint
• Use the Watch windows
• Use the Locals and Autos windows
• Traverse the call stack
• Effective use of the Immediate window
• Attach a debugger to a running process
• Evaluate performance with PerfTips
• Work with the Diagnostics window
• Use the Just-in-Time debugger
• Use the VSHost for faster debugging
• Even more debugging windows

3. Debugging Applications

• Debug console apps
• Debug Windows applications
• Debug ASP.NET MVC websites
• Debug JavaScript
• Debug mobile apps with emulators
• Debug tablet apps with simulators

Conclusion

• Goodbye