Mastering in Visual Studio 2010 Debugging

• Introduction
• How to Start?
• Breakpoints
  • Debugging with Breakpoints
    • Step Over
    • Step Into
    • Step Out
    • Continue
    • Set Next Statement
    • Show Next Statement
  • Labeling in Break Point
  • Conditional Breakpoint
  • Import / Export Breakpoint
  • Breakpoint Hit Count
  • Breakpoint When Hit
  • Breakpoint Filter
• Data Tip
  • Pin Inspect Value During Debugging
  • Drag-Drop Pin Data Tip
  • Adding Comments
  • Last Session Debugging Value
  • Import Export Data Tips
  • Change Value Using Data Tips
  • Clear Data Tips
• Watch Windows
  • Locals
  • Autos
  • Watch
    • Creating Object ID
• Immediate Window
• Call Stack
• Debugging Multithreaded Program
  • Exploring Threads Window
  • Flag Just My Code
  • Break Point Filter – Multithread Debugging
• Debugging Parallel Program
  • Parallel Task and Parallel Stacks
• Debugging with IntelliTrace
  • Overview
  • Mapping with IntelliTrace
  • Filter IntelliTrace Data
• Useful Shortcut Keys For VS Debugging
• Further Study
• Summary

Introduction

In the software development life cycle, testing and defect fixing take more time than actually code writing. In general, debugging is a process of finding out defects in the program and fixing them. Defect fixing comes after the debugging, or you can say they are co-related. When you have some defects in your code, first of all you need to identify the root cause of the defect, which is called the debugging. When you have the root cause, you can fix the defect to make the program behavior as expected.

Now how to debug the code? Visual Studio IDE gives us a lot of tools to debug our application. Sometimes debugging activity takes a very long time to identify the root cause. But VS IDE provides a lot of handy tools which help to debug code in a better way. Debugger features include error listing, adding breakpoints, visualize the program flow, control the flow of execution, data tips, watch variables and many more. Many of them are very common for many developers and many are not. In this article, I have discussed all the important features of VS IDE for debugging like Breakpoint, labeling and saving breakpoints, putting conditions and filter on breakpoints, DataTips, Watch windows, Multithreaded debugging, Thread window, overview of parallel debugging and overview of IntelliTrace Debugging. I hope this will be very helpful for beginners to start up with and for becoming an expert on debugging. Please note, targeted Visual Studio version is Visual Studio 2010. Many things are common in older versions, but many features such as Labeling breakpoint, Pinned DataTip, Multithreaded Debugging, Parallel debugging and IntelliTrace are added in VS 2010. Please provide your valuable suggestions and feedback to improve my article.

How to Start?

You can start debugging from the Debug menu of VS IDE. From the Debug Menu, you can select “Start Debugging” or just press F5 to start the program. If you have placed breakpoints in your code, then execution will begin automatically.

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