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2. Debugger Tips and Tricks
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Debugger Tips and Tricks
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3. “Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?”
Brian Kernighan, Computer Scientist
“As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.”
Sir Maurice Wilkes, Computer Scientist

4. Agenda Demos 20+ Tips and Tricks in Visual Studio 2015
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Demos
20+ Tips and Tricks in Visual Studio 2015
2 New Things in Visual Studio “15” Preview
Resources
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6. Recap Debug Launch Targets Multiple Startup Projects IntelliTrace
Exception Events
Historical Debugging
Debug.WriteLine
Exception Settings
Lambdas in the Immediate Window
Set Next Statement
Edit and Continue

7. Event List
Enterprise: Look at events in the event list to understand timing of various operations in your app
Community + Pro: see the history of break events and the values shown in PerfTips

8. PerfTips
See elapsed time of code as you hit breakpoints and step
F10

9. CPU Usage while Debugging
Monitor the CPU graph for spikes
Enable CPU Profiling and enter break mode to see what functions were consuming the most CPU cycles

10. Memory Usage
Monitor the Memory graph to identify increase in memory consumption
Take snapshots to get a breakdown of memory by type

11. Recap Tracepoints JSON Visualizer Debugger.IsAttached Debugger.Break
Return Values
Step into Specific
Run to Cursor
Pinned Data Tips
Make Object Id
Run To Cursor from Call Stack

12. Help us improve the debugger
aka.ms/diagfb
Subscriber Benefits:
Opportunity to give feedback about future ideas
Try out products and features before the general public

13. Resources
Sample Code from our demos:
Team blog:
Visual Studio Blog:
Debugging Performance Issues Using Visual Studio
Historical Debugging in Visual Studio 2015 with IntelliTrace