Summary

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In this chapter we have seen how the Visual Studio .NET debugger can be used to observe an application's behavior during its execution. Also, we have seen which powerful tools the debugger provides, to allow us to examine and change a variable's value, and more.

In the second part of the chapter, we covered the tracing functionality provided by the .NET with three classes: Trace, Debug, and Switch. We started listing the most useful tracing functionalities focusing on the ability to activate tracing by modifying values within the application configuration file.

Finally, we have seen a practical example where the tracing technique helps developers to find and correct bugs and logical errors.

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