Whenever those of us in Visual Studio give talks or write blog posts about debugging, we typically focus on and that take for granted you already know the basics of debugging. The problem with this is like most things in life debugging is a skill you have to learn before you can take advantage of tips and tricks. Visual Studio Code (Code), have you heard of this product yet? This is an open-source, cross-platform and extremely light weight code editor from Microsoft. Visual Studio is typical example of development IDE.NET Framework 4.5 comes with Visual Studio 2012 (VS 2012). This is the latest version of Visual Studio as of March 2013. It is designed for C# 5,.NET 4.5 and Windows 8 development. To this point I recently sat down with Seth Juarez from Channel 9 for a. For those of you who prefer the printed word, in this post I’ll cover the concepts I hit on in the video. For the purposes of the video and this post I’m using a C# application, although with the exception of Edit and Continue everything applies to any language you can. Start Debugging and Continue Execution To start debugging you can click the “Start” button on the toolbar, go to the Debug menu and select “Start Debugging”, or use the F5 shortcut key. Once you are debugging this becomes a “Continue” command, meaning if you are at a break state in the debugger (either at a breakpoint or have been stepping through code) this will tell the application to resume normal execution. Breakpoints A breakpoint is a debugging concept that tells the debugger to break (pause) the application’s execution at a specific line of source code before it is executed. ![]() Antivirus for mac bitdefender. This is useful when you need your application to run to a specific area of code and then use the debugger to drill into what is going on. To set a breakpoint on a line of code click in the left margin in the text editor for the line of code you want the breakpoint on or place the cursor on that line and Press the F9 key. You will then see a red circle appear that indicates the breakpoint has been set on that line. When you hit the breakpoint it will highlight the line and there will be an arrow in the breakpoint column referred to as the “instruction pointer” that tells you this is the next instruction that is about to execute. Breakpoints can be configured to provide additional conditions and actions beyond just stopping execution every time they are hit. ![]() You can configure them to stop when only specific conditions are met or print information and continue execution. For more information,. Once you hit a breakpoint, you will likely want to use variable inspection and stepping to investigate further, and we’ll cover these features next.
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