Visual Studio 2008 Debugging
I went to an MSDN event yesterday. The topics were Azure, Debugging and Mobile Programming. Azure was interesting. I learned a lot about Azure and I learned that I shouldn’t think too much about it just yet. It won’t do what I need it to do at this time, plus it is a CTP and not ready for prime-time. That’s why they call it a community technology preview. Duh. One huge topic is storage. They don’t have rows. I can’t save a single record. This rather small issue makes it almost impossible to transition data between a local SQL server with a row-based relational model to the entitiy-based Azure data model. That could be a problem. But, as I said, it’s a CTP and lots of smart people are working on it. <shrug≶
The dugging section was the best for me. I learned a few little tidbits that should make my life a little easier. The speaker, Bruno Terkaly, had already posted his debugging tricks to his MSDN blog so I could pay attention and not scribble down notes. I skipped out a few minutes early so I missed all of the mobility discussion. (The word is I missed getting a free book as well.) The first two topics ran long, so there wasn’t much time left and I had a dinner date with the woman which is way more important to me than learning about something I have zero interest in doing today. Tomorrow? Maybe. Today? Nope.
Here are those debugging blog entries 13 links in order.
Breakpoints in SubExpressions
http://blogs.msdn.com/brunoterkaly/archive/2009/02/08/the-art-of-debugging-a-developer-s-best-friend-lesson-2-breakpoints-in-subexpressions.aspx
BreakPoint HitCount
http://blogs.msdn.com/brunoterkaly/archive/2009/02/08/the-art-of-debugging-a-developer-s-best-friend-lesson-3-breakpoint-hitcount.aspx
Debugging Threads Threading Primer
http://blogs.msdn.com/brunoterkaly/archive/2009/02/08/the-art-of-debugging-a-developer-s-best-friend-lesson-4-debugging-threads.aspx
Using TracePoints
http://blogs.msdn.com/brunoterkaly/archive/2009/02/08/the-art-of-debugging-a-developer-s-best-friend-lesson-5-using-tracepoints.aspx
Watch and Immediate Windows – Advanced Techniques
http://blogs.msdn.com/brunoterkaly/archive/2009/02/08/the-art-of-debugging-a-developer-s-best-friend-lesson-6-watch-and-immediate-windows-advanced-techniques.aspx
Advanced Techniques – Using Object ID
http://blogs.msdn.com/brunoterkaly/archive/2009/02/08/the-art-of-debugging-a-developer-s-best-friend-lesson-7-advanced-techniques-using-object-id.aspx
The Garbage Collector – GC
http://blogs.msdn.com/brunoterkaly/archive/2009/02/08/the-art-of-debugging-a-developer-s-best-friend-lesson-8-the-garbage-collector-gc.aspx
The Set Next Statement
http://blogs.msdn.com/brunoterkaly/archive/2009/02/08/the-art-of-debugging-a-developer-s-best-friend-lesson-9-the-set-next-statement.aspx
Debugging Threads
http://blogs.msdn.com/brunoterkaly/archive/2009/02/08/the-art-of-debugging-a-developer-s-best-friend-lesson-10-debugging-threads.aspx
SQL Server Stored Procedures
http://blogs.msdn.com/brunoterkaly/archive/2009/02/09/the-art-of-debugging-a-developer-s-best-friend-lesson-11-sql-server-stored-procedures.aspx
Debugging Javascript In Web Pages
http://blogs.msdn.com/brunoterkaly/archive/2009/02/09/the-art-of-debugging-a-developer-s-best-friend-lesson-12-debugging-javascript-in-web-pages.aspx
Debugging VBScript
http://blogs.msdn.com/brunoterkaly/archive/2009/02/09/the-art-of-debugging-a-developer-s-best-friend-lesson-13-debugging-vbscript.aspx
