Microsoft 9GD00001 manual Summary

180Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner’s Guide

Summary

You are now able to debug code. The section “Development-Time Code Tools” explained how to view the structure of your code at development time. You learned how to set breakpoints along with the many conditions available for breakpoint customization. The section “Stepping Through Code” explained how to navigate through your application, stepping into and out of methods and changing the executable location of your application. You can also open several windows and inspect the state of your application. In particular, you learned how to use the Debug History window that lets you see the state of an application at various stages of a debugging session.

In the next chapter, we migrate from a pure focus of working with code to using the features of VS that allow you to work with .NET technologies. More specifically, the next chapter shows how VS makes it easy to work with data.