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Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed
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Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

by Alessandro Del Sole
May 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1272 pages
61h 18m
English
Sams
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Debugging an Application

To debug a Visual Basic application, you basically need to perform two steps:

• Enable the Debug configuration in the compile options.

• Press F5 to start debugging.

By pressing F5, Visual Studio runs your application and attaches an instance of the debugger to the application. Because the Visual Studio debugger needs the debug symbols to proceed, if you do not choose the Debug configuration, you cannot debug your applications. The instance of the debugger detaches when you shut down your application.

Tip

As an alternative to pressing F5, you can click the Start Debugging button on the Visual Studio standard toolbar.

The debugger monitors your application’s execution and notifies for runtime errors; it allows you to ...

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