Summary

The .NET Framework SDK and VS .NET provide an excellent set of tools for diagnosing and resolving application exceptions. In this chapter we discussed how to use debugging and tracing tools to diagnose known issues and perform application monitoring in ASP.NET applications. We discussed the concept of build configurations to define build types. Applications go through several build types during the development process, from debug builds to release builds. VS .NET makes it easy to manage build configurations, and it also provides a number of integrated debug windows that allow you to step through an application and examine its state. The .NET Framework SDK provides specialized Debug and Trace classes for implementing programmatic debugging and tracing. In addition, ASP.NET provides a specialized TraceContext class for tracing ASP.NET Web applications. Finally, we discussed the importance of an exception management strategy for deployed applications, which includes unattended monitoring. We provided examples of the exception management features provided by ASP.NET.