Attaching to a process during debugging, is one of the very common task. We can attach the Visual Studio debugger to a running process by navigating from Debug > Attach to Process (Ctrl+Alt+P) and then select specific process from the Attach to Process dialog box. This could be a repetitive process during the development and […]
Visual Studio 2015 introduced many tools for debugging and diagnostic. We have also seen an another excellent feature for inspecting and debugging XAML UI. This feature enable a great capability for developers to Visualize and modify the XAML UI within a running application and review the dynamic the changes. The tooling is support for XAML […]
Choosing right version for your Apps is an important aspect for the app development and release for your end users. There are different released version of operating system, you can choose which one to target or support. By setting up these version, you can ensure which Universal Platform your app would run or even what […]
Getting the performance information is now in your finger tip and you can inspect this information during debugging itself using the PerfTips feature. Run you application in debug mode, and step through the lines by F10. You should be to able see the time elapsed during the execution of previous statement. This feature is enabled […]
“Make Object ID”, you can consider it as an another hidden features of Visual Studio that can give you lot of flexibility during debugging. When we set “Make Object ID” for an object, we are informing the Debugger to keep track of that object no matter it’s within scope or out of scope for the […]
Watch Windows is one of most powerful and commonly used debugging tool inside Visual Studio. This tool is commonly used to explore the objects, values, properties and other aspect during debugging. To inspect any object, while debugging we generally right click on the code block and select “Add to Watch” to explore or we can […]
During debugging, Visual Studio debug Output window shows different set of essential messages. This could be exception information, process exit information, thread exit information etc. However in many cases you don’t need them to view or it may distract you with lots of messages which is not required. In that case you can filter them […]
In Visual Studio, by using the Call Stack window, we can view the function call that are currently on the stack for that instance of execution steps. It’s one of most frequently used feature during debugging. This helps us to trace the code flow and debug thing faster and If you are familiar with Code Maps, […]
Visual Studio 2015 introduced many tools for debugging and diagnostic. We have seen PerfTips – Easiest way to get Performance Information and Debugging Lambda Expression in Visual Studio 2015 over past weeks. In this post, we are going to take look into another excellent feature for inspecting and debugging XAML UI. This feature enable a […]
Debugging Lambda expression is one of the coolest feature of Visual Studio 2015 and that’s bring lot of productivity among developers during debugging and release lot of pain. Using lambda expression is pretty often in code, mostly when we writes lots of LINQ statements. Priory to Visual Studio 2015, there was no direct and easy way, […]
It is not easy to debug a windows service with the help of Visual Studio. We won’t be able to run them directly from Visual Studio, we need to install and start the service and further attach a debugger to it. So let’s see how we can make sure we can debug a windows service […]
Conditional Breakpoint in Visual Studio is a great way to optimize the debugging time and pause the execution only when the condition satisfied. Along with the normal condition with in conditional breakpoint in visual studio, we can call a methods from the condition field and based on the return value debugger will stop at the […]