Debugging Strategies for .Net Developers

By Darin Dillon

Book Overview

* Describes valuable techniques for debugging Microsoft .NET applications. * Shows how to get the most out of the Visual Studio .NET debugger. * Shows how to debug applications at remote customer sites, as well as on your own computer. * Contains dozens of real-world debugging examples from the author's career to show how to apply debugging techniques to your own bugs. * Identifies common bugs that programmers new to .NET often make.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590590597
• ISBN13: 9781590590591
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Good book, recommended, but could have been more "hard core"

This book sumarrizes the basic principles of .NET debugging quite well. The first three chapters concentrate on general debugging ideas without being very technical. The next five concentrate on very specific parts of .NET (assertions, logging, ASP .NET/SQL, remote debugging, multithreading). Chapters 9 and 10 return to a somewhat non-technical focus by talking about bug tracking and source code control. The author talks mostly from personal experiences ("I had a coworker who did this. On further investigation, we determined that were doing [the basis of this chapter's section] wrong.") This makes the book engaging, but a few times, it leads the author into tangents on COM and interop. As someone who writes in 100% managed code, I didn't find those tangets particularly useful. I appreciated the absence of grammatical errors and poorly constructed sentences. Chapter 9 ("Defect Tracking Programs", aka bug management), Chapter 8 ("Multithreading"), and the first 3 chapters were very well-written with a good number of "Aha!" moments. Even chapters that concentrated on technologies that I do not directly use every day (ASP .NET, logging with TraceListener, remote debugging) were comprehensible without previous domain knowledge. Be warned that the few code snippets in this book are in C#. I also recommend ".NET Gotchas" which goes into the idiosyncrasies of C# and VB. Who knows, armed with that knowledge, you might never have to debug! :-)

Excellent resource for debugging in .NET

I just finished reading this book and it was so good that I figured I finally had to write a review, which I have often thought of doing for other books but never actually done. This book is full of great debugging techniques and strategies, many of which I was familiar with but just as many which I had not encountered before. The author uses an engaging style of writing making use of real-life examples from his own career that are both interesting and relevant to the technique he is describing. I found the author to be very knowledgeable and very good at communicating that knowledge.