Viewing Debug Windows
Knowing what your application is doing is the key to resolving problems efficiently. This has to do with the old adage that knowledge is power. Several portholes allow you to peak into the viscera of your application as it cogitates. I will briefly review these here and leave the experimentation to you.
To provide you with a sufficient amount of code to debug I hacked together an object-oriented calculator. Listing 17.1 provides the code, which also appears in DebugWindowsDemo.sln. The calculator has nested classes, supports keyboard input, and uses classes for operands and polymorphic behavior for operators. For example, multiplication is represented as a MultiplicationOperator class. Because I hacked it together I am sure ...
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