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Debugging

Visual Studio Debugger Tips and Tricks: pseudovariables

There are two pseudovariables available in debugger when running C# or VB.NET project: $exception and $user. The former one relates to the last exception while the latter one displays information about the

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Visual Studio Debugger Tips and Tricks: Tracepoints

This time I want to present you Tracepoints in Visual Studio debugger. Tracepoints are special kind of break points which allows you to specify an action to execute when hit. The most common

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Visual Studio Debugger Tips and Tricks: show parameter values in call stack window

Today’s Tips’n’Trick is one which I value a lot. Lets say you are in the debugging session and you look at the Call Stack window to check what methods were

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    Mariusz Wojcik
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Visual Studio Debugger Tips and Tricks: Set Next Statement

In the last Visual Studio Debugger Tips’n’Tricks I showed Run To Cursor option which allows for running debugger and breaking in selected line. Today I am going to present another option

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Visual Studio Debugger Tips and Tricks: Run to Cursor

Imagine, you are in the debugging mode and the next statement is a loop. You do not want to step into this loop and waste time on iterating over items but you also

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Visual Studio Debugger Tips and Tricks: step into specific

We all try to keep our code concise, so from time to time there is one line which calls several methods, like this one:PrintMessage(FormatResult(text, ReverseString(text))); When debugging your code

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Visual Studio Debugger Tips and Tricks: step out

How many times did you step into a method just to realise you didn’t want to? Sometimes it is a simple, short method and you can step through it. Other times it

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