One trick I picked up from fellow developers was to open a file real quick in Visual Studio. The trick was to go to the Command Window and type open <filename>. This is a great productivity tip as you don’t have to search the file through the Solution Explorer. And if you miss the command prompt after having worked with debuggers such [...]
The rule of debugging is very simple -
“Every developer should strive to reproduce the bug by hitting the required set of breakpoints the least number of times. This allows faster and efficient debugging sessions.”
If you are familiar with hit count breakpoints already, you may want to click here to jump to the advanced tricks shared in this article. What is the hit count of a breakpoint? A debugger allows users to set a breakpoint at a specific line in code. When the execution reaches that line, the breakpoint [...]
