Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .NET
Many of the debugging tools in Visual Basic .NET are improvements over the tools found in earlier versions of Visual Basic. However, one of Visual Basic .NET’s biggest steps backward, in my opinion, is the loss of edit and continue. In Visual Basic 6 (and earlier versions), you could stop code at any point in time, modify code as needed, and then continue code execution. This made debugging a project considerably less tedious and far more efficient. Unfortunately, this feature did not make it into the first release of Visual Basic .NET. This means, if you encounter a bug while running your project, you’ll have to stop the project, change the code, and re-run the project to test your changes. If you’re debugging ...
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