Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Summary

Debugging is a primary task in developing applications. The Visual Studio 2015 IDE offers lots of useful tools that can enhance the debugging experience. This chapter introduced Just My Code, breakpoints, conditions, and actions, and also debugging in steps. You also saw the debugger windows in action, enabling deep control over variables and objects. In the end, you learned how to customize your own code to take advantage of the Visual Studio debugging tools by decorating your code with debug attributes. But debugging is just one part in the development process that fights against errors. Exceptions are the other part, and they are discussed in Chapter 6, “Errors, Exceptions, and Code Refactoring.”