Chapter 42DataTips, Debug Proxies, and Visualizers
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Other than writing code, debugging is likely the most time-consuming activity when writing an application. If you consider all the time you spend stepping through code, looking at the Watch window to see the value of a variable, or even just running the application looking for any exceptions being raised, you realize that this is one of the most time-consuming parts of writing software.
Previous chapters have focused on how you can use the various debugging windows to retrieve information about the current status of your application, and how you can set breakpoints and tracepoints to generate debugging information. This chapter goes beyond what is provided out-of-the-box and looks at how you can customize the debugging experience to reduce the time spent wading through unnecessary lines of code.
Using debugging proxy types and visualizers, you can represent complex variables ...
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