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Mastering Visual Studio 2017
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Mastering Visual Studio 2017

by Kunal Chowdhury
July 2017
Beginner
466 pages
9h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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Overview of Visual Studio debugger tools

The debugger is a Visual Studio tool which works as a background process to inspect the execution of the program. Breakpoints are used to notify the debugger to pause the execution of the program when it hits at a certain line. PDB (Program Data Base) files are used to store the debugging information. It stores the line number, Data Tips information, and many other related information of the source code which are required to debug the application. Visual Studio then reads it to pause the debugging and provide more details of the execution.

When you build the application in debug mode, the PDB file has more information than in release mode.

It is not mandatory that in all cases the debugger will work. ...

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