Debugging

Producing Packages with Source Link

Claire Novotny December 9, 2020 Dec 9, 2020 12/9/20

Learn how to add Source Link to your packages, to make your users more productive while debugging.

Improving Debug-time Productivity with Source Link

Claire Novotny December 2, 2020 Dec 2, 2020 12/2/20

Improve your debug-time productivity by using Source Link to step into framework and dependency code.

Debug Your .NET Core Apps in WSL 2 with Visual Studio

Nathan Carlson September 17, 2020 Sep 17, 2020 09/17/20

The .NET Core Debugging with WSL 2 – Preview extension lets run and debug your .NET Core apps in WSL 2 from Visual Studio.

Debugging .NET Apps with Time Travel Debugging (TTD)

Felipe Pessoto January 25, 2019 Jan 25, 2019 01/25/19

When you are debugging an application, there are many tools and techniques you can use, like logs, memory dumps and Event Tracing for Windows (ETW). In this post, we will talk about Time Travel Debugging, a tool used by Microsoft Support and product teams and more advanced users, but I encourage everyone to try this approach when diagnosing ...

Changes to script debugging in Visual Studio 15.7

Angelos Petropoulos June 29, 2018 Jun 29, 2018 06/29/18

We’re always looking for ways to make developing with Visual Studio faster. One of the tasks developers do many times a day is launching debugging sessions. We identified that script debugging added about 1.5s per F5, but only about 15.5% of people actively debugged script using Visual Studio. Based on the above, in Visual Studio 15.7 ...

Client-side debugging of ASP.NET projects in Google Chrome

Mads Kristensen November 21, 2016 Nov 21, 2016 11/21/16

Updated 2017/1/3 - Setting to control script debugging added. See below. Visual Studio 2017 RC now supports client-side debugging of both JavaScript and TypeScript in Google Chrome. For years, it has been possible to debug both the backend .NET code and the client-side JavaScript code running in Internet Explorer at the same time. ...

Remote Debug ASP.NET Core RC1 on Azure App Service

Brady Gaster March 21, 2016 Mar 21, 2016 03/21/16

ASP.NET developers who deploy their code to Azure App Service have remote debugging features available from the Visual Studio Server and Cloud Explorer windows. ASP.NET 4x projects can be debugged live in App Service by simply right-clicking your Web, Mobile, or API Apps in Cloud Explorer and clicking the “Attach Debugger” action. Under ...

Debugging ASP.NET 5 framework code using Visual Studio 2015

Victor Hurdugaci February 6, 2015 Feb 6, 2015 02/6/15

In the previous versions of ASP.NET it was possible to debug certain parts of the framework stack but setting up the development environment and compiling all the binaries was not the easiest task. ASP.NET 5 changes that and makes debugging framework code as easy as debugging your own application. This article shows how to debug into the ASP....

“Enable Edit and Continue” debugging option is now on by default for new web applications in VS2013 preview

Xinyang Qiu July 11, 2013 Jul 11, 2013 07/11/13

In VS2010 and VS2012, the edit and continue option is disabled by default when creating a new web application project. In VS2013 preview, we turned it on by default. You can find this option on the Web tab in the web project’s properties window. With “Enable Edit and Continue” on, the VS debugger starts your web ...

KB2650605 QFE : VS2010 sp1 VB web form editor may not become editable during debugging

Web Development Tools Microsoft January 31, 2012 Jan 31, 2012 01/31/12

We recently released a VS2010 sp1 QFE KB2650605 to solve a VB editor debugging problem. During VB web form debugging, VB web form may become un-editable if there are server tags inside. If you develop and debug VB web forms, you might be interested to download this QFE. http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/...

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