Configuring Visual Studio for Debugging Set Up Visual Studio 2008: a. Install and set up Visual Studio 2008 including any updates. Set Up the Symbols Path: a. Launch Visual Studio 2008. b. From the Tools menu, choose Options. c. In the Options dialog box, open the Debugging node and select General a...

Debugger Visualizers are one of the best productivity additions to the Visual Studio debugging experience. After reading Vardi's post showing the wide variety of custom visualizers, I decided to start maintaining a list of visualizers at dotnetpowered.com . After some internet research, I've documented...

The two common errors are Cannot create/shadow copy 'File Name' when that file already exists. Usually get this message usually when in a debug/edit/debug cycle after successfully building a C# solution and pressing F5 to debug it. Exception Details: Read More......( read more )

So I was looking around CodePlex the other day and I came across some really useful tools up there that I thought I would share.  Not all of these will apply to everyone, but they can be really useful things and I would recommend you to check them Read More......( read more )

I am not sure how many people are familiar with the .NET Reference Source project, but if you do a lot of debugging of .NET code, chances are that you have had a situation where you wanted to be able to step into the .NET Source from within Visual Studio Read More......( read more )

I am considering creating some videos showing some debugging tips.  My original idea is to create short videos that just some doing some specific things.  So not full debug sessions, but rather specific parts.  So that when you are debugging Read More......( read more )

Listen now! Josh Smith, former developer for the New York Times WPF reader talks to us today about his experiences in creating Mole, a debugger visualizer for Visual Studio. You can find details about Mole at http://moleproject.com/ . Karl Shifflett (affectionatley known as the "Molenator") recently...

The long awaited release of the .NET Framework Library source code for debugging purposes has arrived. Scott Guthrie announced it here . Scott Hanselman and Peter Bromberg blogged about it here and here . One of my mentors, John Robbins from Wintellect, has a great blog about this subject . I am really...

Scott gave a whirlwind presentation to a standing room only crowd at the North Dallas Dot Net User Group tonight. A wide range of topics were covered from IDE tips and tricks to ASP.NET tips to MS AJAX to LINQ and DLINQ (I still like to call it DLINQ rather than LINQ to SQL). I'm still not sure how all...

I was discussing debugging of Javascript on one of the ASP.NET Ajax forums recently and thought I'd share how I go about it, as you'd be surprised how many people are unaware of this capability. Note: This only discusses getting the debugging process going, not other debugging techniques such as using...