Cool Debugging Tips

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Back in September, Mahesh Krishnan, a consultant in Australia posted a great blog that I thought I’d link to.  Mahesh blogged about 10 of the cool, and many times overlooked, debugging features of Visual Studio 2008.  Here’s some of the items:

  • Stepping into the Framework source
  • Moving the execution point
  • Step into Specific
  • Step over properties and operators
  • Tracepoints
  • Conditional breakpoints and tracepoints
  • DebuggerDisplay attribute
  • DebuggerTypeProxy attribute
  • System.Diagnosatic Namespace

The coolest one, IMHO, is the DebuggerDisplay attribute.  Read the full post at:

Visual Studio Debugging Tips and Tricks