Debug in Visual Studio

Starting to Debug

Debugging a Running Process

• Without a solution loaded you can still debug
• Attach to an existing process
• Useful when solution isn't readily available
• Accessible from the debug menu
• Source code debugging still available when attaching a process

1. Start an app from command line
2. Open VS and navigate Debug/Attach to process
3. Find the app you started in process
4. Open related source code file by using File/Open

Debugging a Solution

F5 / Debug menu etc...

Debug Windows

While debugging Debug/Windows/ menu shows which windows are available

Symbols

Auxiliary metadata about your code (Like line numbers)

To use them : Debug/Options and Settings/Symbols

Callstack and Modules window can also load symbols

Debugging .NET Framework

To debug framework itself

Debug / Options and Settings / General

check two .NET checkboxes and

in Symbols add symbol file location as http://referencesource.microsoft.com/symbols

Click "Load All Symbols"

Call Stack

To see only my calls there is an option under Options and Settings "Enable Just My code"

Stop debugger from code

Debugger.Break();