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.NET Remote Symbol Loading Changes in Visual Studio 2012 and 2013

October 16, 2013 Oct 16, 2013 10/16/13
Andrew Chan - MSFT
In this blog post, we will cover the changes we have made in the way we load symbols in the remote debugging experience for .NET languages. This applies to remote debugging for .NET languages and other languages will load symbols locally. Visual Studio 2010 experience In Visual Studio 2010, we would look for symbols deployed onto the remote ...

Switching to Managed Compatibility Mode in Visual Studio 2013

October 16, 2013 Oct 16, 2013 10/16/13
Andrew Chan - MSFT
In Visual Studio 2012, we introduced a new managed debug engine that provides us the ability to more rapidly add new features compared to the older implementation. This can be seen by the number of features introduced in Visual Studio 2013 after only a single year including Managed Return Values, .NET 64-bit Edit and Continue, Async Callstacks...

IntelliTrace and WCF Services called by Silverlight

October 16, 2013 Oct 16, 2013 10/16/13
Larry Guger
IntelliTrace is not supported in Silverlight due to the security model. IntelliTrace is supported for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) projects hosted in a web server such as Internet Information Server (IIS) or Internet Information Server Express (IIS Express). When debugging an application in Visual Studio Ultimate that contains both ...

Tweaking Microsoft Monitoring Agent for Null Values

October 15, 2013 Oct 15, 2013 10/15/13
Larry Guger
The Microsoft Monitoring Agent does a great job of logging unexpected exceptions that occur within your application. NullReferenceExceptions are one of the most frequent types of exceptions that are encountered. The default settings for the Microsoft Monitoring Agent are configured to optimize data collection and does not record null parameter...

Data Breakpoints

October 14, 2013 Oct 14, 2013 10/14/13
Brad Sullivan
This blog post is part of a series on breakpoints in the Visual Studio debugger and has been updated to reflect the experience of using Visual Studio 2015. If you are interested in details about setting data breakpoints using earlier versions of Visual Studio please see the MSDN Documentation. Data breakpoints are a powerful feature that is ...

Conditional Breakpoints

October 11, 2013 Oct 11, 2013 10/11/13
Brad Sullivan
This blog post is part of a series on breakpoints in the Visual Studio debugger and has been updated to reflect the experience of using Visual Studio 2015. If you are interested in details about setting conditional breakpoints using earlier versions of Visual Studio please see the MSDN documentation. In earlier posts, we showed hit count ...

Filter Breakpoints

October 9, 2013 Oct 9, 2013 10/9/13
Brad Sullivan
This blog post is part of a series on breakpoints in the Visual Studio debugger and has been updated to reflect the experience of using Visual Studio 2015. If you are interested in details about setting conditional breakpoints using earlier versions of Visual Studio please see the MSDN documentation.  The code used in the examples below is ...

Function Breakpoints

October 8, 2013 Oct 8, 2013 10/8/13
Brad Sullivan
This blog post is part of a series on breakpoints in the Visual Studio debugger and has been updated to reflect the experience in Visual Studio 2015.  In this post, we will show the function breakpoints feature of Visual Studio and how this feature can be used to save you time while debugging. Dealing with Overloads Let’s say that you ...

Hit Count Breakpoints

October 7, 2013 Oct 7, 2013 10/7/13
Brad Sullivan
This blog post is part of a series on breakpoints in the Visual Studio debugger and has been updated to reflect the experience of using Visual Studio 2015. If you are interested in details about setting hit count breakpoints using earlier versions of Visual Studio please see the MSDN documentation. As mentioned in an earlier post, we will be ...