Chapter 18. Application Tracing and Error Handling

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Responding to Errors

• Tracing and Monitoring Your Application

• Logging Events

• Using the Debugger

In this chapter, you learn how to identify and correct problems in your ASP.NET applications. In the first section, you examine several methods for gracefully handling errors. I discuss methods of capturing and handling errors at both the page and application level.

Next, you examine how to trace and monitor the execution of your ASP.NET pages. You learn how to enable tracing, monitor the ASP.NET process, log events to the event log, and read performance counters.

Finally, you are provided with an overview of the .NET framework debugger. You learn how to attach the debugger to the ASP.NET process and step line-by-line through an executing application.