Summary

This chapter presented you with the different features of the integrated debugging environment in Visual Studio .NET. These powerful tools help you track down bugs easily. In this chapter, you learned:

• How to set and use breakpoints

• How to step through your code, line by line, as well as how to step over procedures

• How to use the various debugging windows and tools provided by Visual Studio .NET

• How to add conditional compilation constants to your code, allowing you to include or exclude blocks of code based on those constants

Using the powerful tools provided by Visual Studio .NET, you should be able to track down and destroy bugs in your applications, quickly and efficiently.