Latest Debugging and Tracing Articles

Learn about trace testing and the tools available for Visual Studio.

Learn about the history of debugging and evolutionary improvements in Intellisense in Visual Studio 2010.

Programming is hard,debugging is hard. Doing both well is critical to being a good programmer. To make things easier for us Paul Kimmel demonstrates how to run custom Tracepoint with macros.

Intellisense is a programmer's best friend. The framework is too big to memorize, but Intellisense can make finding things manageable. Extend Intellisense into your own code with XML comments in Visual Studio 8 and 9.

Learn how to enable VB6 applications to use function pointers and how to embed native code without using external DLLs.

A mainstay of software engineering is a concept called tracing. The basic idea is that you insert statements into your code that provide information about your application while it is running. (.NET)