Summary

In this chapter you have examined the less exciting parts of development those things that many programmers find a drudge, but in some respects are the most important. Maybe these topics have always been shied away from because you just haven't had the facilities to make their implementation and use easy. After all, that was pretty much the case with ASP. It's a great product, but the surrounding toolset wasn't industrial strength. With ASP.NET you have that strength great support for error handling and tracing, and a fully featured debugger.

In particular we have see:

• Tracing :And how you can trace the flow of your applications.

• Error handling :To show how robust applications can be created.

• Debugging :With the rich debuggers allowing cross-language and cross-machine application debugging.

• Profiling :Seeing how to add performance counters so performance and scalability can be assessed.

Together these features provide a great environment for developing applications. Now it's time to turn our attention to migrating from existing ASP and COM applications.