Comprehensive VB .NET Debugging, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed.

THIS BOOK IS ABOUT FINDING, understanding, fixing, and preferably preventing bugs when creating desktop, network, and Web applications with Visual Basic (VB) .NET. It explores the power of the new cross-language and cross-component debugging tools, and shows you how to dig down into or tunnel across your entire application to find bugs at whatever level they live. With the arrival of VB .NET, many of the old debugging rules have changed. This means that some ominous storm clouds are gathering on the horizon. Well, Toto, We're Not in Kansas Anymore Back in the personal computing Dark Ages, during a period when men were men and code was written in blood, it took some seriously hard-core work to create a viable and stable Windows application. Windows itself was still relatively imma­ ture and was being held back because of the lack of simple tools available for producing programs. Then in 1991 Visual Basic 1.0 and its successors (henceforth collectively referred to as VB.Classic) came riding to the rescue and changed the software development world in a dramatic way.

One Debugging in the VB .NET World.- 1 Strategic Debugging Issues.- 2 Language Surprises in VB .NET.- Two The Debugging Tools.- 3 The Visual Studio .NET Debugger.- 4 Using the Visual Studio .NET Debugger.- 5 Other Debugging Tools.- 6 Tracing and Instrumentation.- Three Debugging Applications.- 7 Windows Forms Debugging.- 8 Web Services Debugging.- 9 ASP.NET Debugging.- 10 Windows Services Debugging.- 11 VB.Classic Debugging.- 12 SQL Server Debugging.- Four Debugging Common Scenarios.- 13 Error Handling and Exception Management.- 14 Debugging Multithreaded Applications.- 15 Debugging Distributed Systems.

Mark Pearce is a freelance consultant and developer specializing in the design and construction of investment banking IT systems. He specializes in software quality processes and has consulted for many blue-chip clients including Citigroup, Nomura, Barclays Capital, Lehmans, Enron, British Petroleum, and Citibank. His other major areas of interest include database design, middleware messaging, and distributed applications. In a previous life, Mark was a professional chess player who paid for his chess-playing bug with near-starvation. His current hobbies of snowmobiling and mountain running are less energetic and much more fun.

Complete coverage of VB .NET debugging aimed exclusively at all classic VB developers Includes every application type, from Windows Forms to ASP.NET to XML Web services Covers many common debugging scenarios, including multi-threading, inheritance, and resource management Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras