Exam Ref 70-483: Programming in C#

Objective 3.4 Debug an application

No matter how good your development process is, from time to time you will have a bug in your application. Debugging is the process of removing those errors from your application. The C# compiler and Visual Studio help you a lot with finding and fixing the bugs in your application.

This objective covers how to:

• Choose an appropriate build type.

• Create and manage compiler directives.

• Manage program database files and symbols.

Build configurations

If you create a new project in Visual Studio, it creates two default build configurations for you:

• Release mode

• Debug mode

If you compile your project, the settings from these configurations are used to configure what the compiler does. In release mode, the compiled code is fully ...