HoloLens Beginner's Guide

Visual Studio Debugger

Speaking of tracing every line of code, a lesson that I have had to learn and relearn a couple of times over the years is that sometimes when you are really stuck, the best thing you can do is set a breakpoint, a point in the code that tells the debugger to stop execution, set up to watch a specific variable, and start stepping in and out of methods.

It was not that long ago that I had spent 6 hours with no luck trying to figure out an issue. I set up the Visual Studio Debugger and watched the call stack for a single pass through and noted an odd occurrence--it was fixed in 3 minutes. Seriously, 3 minutes after hours of beating my head against a wall--I can be stubborn at times. Let's have a look at the currentBallSpeed ...