Comprehensive VB .Net Debugging

By: Mark Pearce

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Paperback | 2 May 2003

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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.

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About the Author	p. xiii
About the Technical Reviewer	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xix
Debugging in the VB .NET World	p. 1
Strategic Debugging Issues	p. 3
Application Reliability	p. 4
Application Availability	p. 10
Debugging Complex Systems	p. 14
Debugging Developer Psychology	p. 18
Summary	p. 28
Interlude	p. 29
Language Surprises in VB .NET	p. 33
The True Value of True in VB .NET	p. 33
Class Member Overloading	p. 34
Understanding Inheritance Issues	p. 41
Miscellaneous Gotchas	p. 53
Summary	p. 68
Interlude	p. 69
The Debugging Tools	p. 71
The Visual Studio .NET Debugger	p. 73
Introduction to the Visual Studio Debugger	p. 73
How the Visual Studio Debugger Works	p. 77
Three Debugging Modes	p. 84
Using the Visual Studio Debugger IDE	p. 93
Visual Studio Debugger IDE Issues	p. 118
Summary	p. 120
Interlude	p. 121
Using the Visual Studio .NET Debugger	p. 123
Visual Studio Preparation	p. 123
Solution Preparation	p. 130
Project Preparation	p. 133
Setting the Active Debugger Process	p. 138
Debugging Production Applications	p. 139
Debug Symbols Management	p. 140
Improving JIT Debugging	p. 143
Coping Without Edit and Continue	p. 143
Debugging Common Intermediate Language	p. 144
Understanding Code Optimization	p. 146
Summary	p. 150
Interlude	p. 151
Other Debugging Tools	p. 153
Cordbg: The Console Debugger	p. 153
Dbgclr: The GUI Debugger	p. 157
Ildasm: Viewing CIL	p. 158
Performance Monitor: Viewing Performance Information	p. 166
Adepends: Viewing Assembly Dependencies	p. 170
PermView: Viewing Assembly Permissions	p. 171
Summary	p. 178
Interlude	p. 178
Tracing and Instrumentation	p. 183
Useful Diagnostic Information	p. 184
VB .NET Tracing	p. 188
Using the Debug Class	p. 211
Using Custom Performance Counters	p. 213
Summary	p. 216
Interlude	p. 217
Debugging Applications	p. 219
Windows Forms Debugging	p. 221
Debugging a Windows Forms Application	p. 221
Debugging Other Windows Forms Applications	p. 232
Summary	p. 237
Interlude	p. 238
Web Services Debugging	p. 241
Debugging the ASP .NET Worker Process	p. 242
Debugging Preparation	p. 242
Debugging Using a Web Browser	p. 244
Debugging Using a SOAP Client	p. 248
Debugging the Client Proxy	p. 252
Debugging a Remote Web Service	p. 253
Debugging a Deployed Web Service	p. 253
Handling Web Service Failure	p. 254
Tracking SOAP Messages	p. 263
Tracing and Instrumentation	p. 274
Summary	p. 274
Interlude	p. 275
ASP .NET Debugging	p. 277
IIS Debugging Considerations	p. 277
Debugging Preparation	p. 283
Debugging the AspNetDebugDemo Application	p. 291
Using ASP .NET Tracing	p. 300
Summary	p. 307
Interlude	p. 307
Windows Services Debugging	p. 309
Debugging the ServiceAdmin Service	p. 309
Debugging Installation Issues	p. 316
Be Careful	p. 318
Summary	p. 318
Interlude	p. 319
VB. Classic Debugging	p. 321
VB. Classic Versions	p. 321
Managed vs. Unmanaged	p. 322
VB .NET Application Using a VB 6.0 Component	p. 323
VB 6.0 Application Using a VB .NET Component	p. 329
Overcoming COM Versioning Problems	p. 333
Summary	p. 337
Interlude	p. 337
SQL Server Debugging	p. 339
Debugging Requirements	p. 339
Debugging Installation	p. 340
Permissions and sp_sdidebug	p. 341
Remote Debugging Permissions	p. 342
Direct Debugging with Visual Studio	p. 343
Direct Debugging with Query Analyzer	p. 346
Application Debugging	p. 346
SQL Debugging Limitations	p. 352
Understanding SQL Security	p. 353
Summary	p. 355
Interlude	p. 355
Debugging Common Scenarios	p. 359
Error Handling and Exception Management	p. 361
Exceptions vs. Errors	p. 361
Requirements for Error Handling	p. 363
Exceptions and Exception Management	p. 369
Summary	p. 417
Interlude	p. 418
Debugging Multithreaded Applications	p. 421
Multithreading Basics	p. 422
Multithreading Problems	p. 426
The ThreadMonitor Application	p. 443
Multithreading in Windows Forms	p. 448
Dealing with Thread Failure	p. 453
Summary	p. 456
Interlude	p. 456
Debugging Distributed Systems	p. 459
Understanding Distributed Applications	p. 459
Introduction to Remote Debugging	p. 466
Remote Debugging Preparation	p. 468
The HeartbeatMonitor Application	p. 474
Monitoring Distributed Applications	p. 481
Summary	p. 483
Interlude	p. 483
Index	p. 485
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