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Debugging .NET Apps with Time Travel Debugging (TTD)

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

The future of ASP.NET SignalR

September 17, 2018 Sep 17, 2018 09/17/18
Andrew Stanton-Nurse
In ASP.NET Core 2.1, we brought SignalR into the ASP.NET Core family. Many of our users have asked what this means for the previous version of SignalR: ASP.NET SignalR. As a reminder, ASP.NET SignalR is represented by the NuGet package Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR and runs on applications using .NET Framework and System.Web. ASP.NET Core SignalR ...

Changes to script debugging in Visual Studio 15.7

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

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

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

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

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