Aaron Hallberg, Author at Azure DevOps Blog

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7 Ways to Look at the Values of Variables While Debugging in Visual Studio

July 15th, 2016

When you are running your code and something is behaving unexpectedly, how do you find out what is going wrong? When I was in school the first way I learned how to debug a wonky application was by sticking “print()” statements all over the place, running my code, and looking back through the log of output seeing if I noticed that something...

Team Foundation Server Update 2 “Trial”

April 6th, 2016

NOTE: This post has been updated since it was initially published. The earlier version mistakenly stated that TFS server licenses were free in TFS 2015 Update 2 and beyond. This is not the case. TFS Express can still be used free of charge for up to five users. You need a server license to use the full version of TFS in a compliant manner. ...

Using the New Exception Helper in Visual Studio 2017

March 31st, 2016

Dealing with exceptions is a common developer problem no matter your technology or level of expertise. It can be a frustrating experience figuring out why exceptions are causing problems in your code. When you are debugging an exception in Visual Studio, we want to lessen that frustration by providing you with relevant exception information to...

Break on Exceptions Thrown only from Specific Modules in Visual Studio 2017

March 31st, 2016

In Visual Studio 2015 we introduced the new Exception Settings window which provides you a quick way to configure the debugger to break when exceptions are thrown. As part of that window revamp, we heard that simply filtering by exception type is not always good enough, you need finer grained control over when the debugger breaks on thrown ...

Updates for Debugging Installed App Packages in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2

March 30th, 2016

In Visual Studio 2015 Update 2, we added support to the Debug Installed App Package dialog for: Note that attach to process is not currently supported for Xbox or HoloLens, but we hope to add it in a future release. Debugging Installed App Packages Open the Debug Installed App Package dialog from Debug -> Other Debug ...

SonarQube: SDK to build plugins for Roslyn Analyzers released

March 17th, 2016

Last month we announced the pre-release version of the SDK for SonarQube Roslyn Analyzer Plugins, the purpose of which is to create a SonarQube plugin for a Roslyn analyzer. We are pleased to announce that version 1 of the SDK is now available. We have made a few small but significant changes for the release version: Removed the need for ...

SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild v2.0 released: support for third-party Roslyn analyzers

February 18th, 2016

We are pleased to announce that SonarSource has officially released version 2.0 of the SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild and version 4.5 of the SonarQube C# Plugin. The release notes for the scanner and plugin list the bugs that were fixed, but the major change is that together these releases provide support for using third-party Roslyn analyzers ...

Using the DebuggerNonUserCode Attribute in Visual Studio 2015

February 12th, 2016

You can add the DebuggerNonUserCode attribute to your application as a handy way to tell the debugger that you don’t want to debug into specific sections of code. If you haven’t used this attribute previously, this blog post gives a summary of how you can use it as part of your debugging workflow. If you currently use this attribute, ...

Servicing Update Available for Visual Studio Update 1

January 26th, 2016

In Visual Studio 2015 we are piloting a recurring and cumulative servicing update that provides fixes to high-impact bugs between our regular updates. In the second servicing update recently made available, we fixed an issue in Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 that can cause Visual Studio to crash sometime after editing C# or Visual Basic ...

MSBuild.SonarQube.Runner v1.0.2 released (and renamed)

November 4th, 2015

Yesterday, SonarSource officially released SonarQube C# Plugin 4.3 and version 1.0.2 of the MSBuild.SonarQube.Runner. An updated version of the MSBuild.SonarQube.Runner documentation has also been released. Readers who have seen the SonarSource announcement might have noticed that it refers to the SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild. This is ...

Aaron Hallberg

Senior Director of Product, Azure DevOps