1. Advanced Debugging
with Visual Studio 2013 Preview
Danijel Malik
SSW Solution Architect
Visual Studio ALM MVP
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 What’s new (for debugging)?
 Basics (Breakpoints, Data tips, Visualizers)
 Debug Windows (Watches, Call Stack, Code Map,…)
 Code interaction with Visual Studio Debugger
 Multi-threaded & Parallel debugging
 IntelliTrace
 Remote Debugging & Memory Dump
Agenda

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 x64 Edit & Continue
 View method return values (in Autos)
 Debug Managed Memory
 Code Map Debugging
What’s new?

4. Breakpoints
 Location (F9)
 Condition
 Hit Count
 Filter
 When Hit (printing)
 Break at Function
 Labels
 Export & Import
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5. Data Tips
 What they are?
 Pin any value
 Custom expressions
 Comments
 Export & Import
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6. Debug Windows
 Watches (Basic and Parallel), Breakpoints, Call
Stack, Immediate Window
 Code Map
 Application Thumbnail
 Threads
 Parallel Tasks & Stack
 Exceptions Window
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7. Code Interaction with Debugger
 Debugger.Break
 DebuggerDisplayAttribute
 DebuggerTypeProxy
 DebuggerVisualizer
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8. Multi-threaded and Parallel debugging
 Tasks (async / await)
 Threading
 Parallel.For() / Parallel.ForEach()
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9. IntelliTrace
 In Visual Studio
 Standalone Collector
 Download http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=245688
 Extract the package and set permissions
 Run in PowerShell and collect the data.
 Open the .iTrace file in Visual Studio
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10. Remote Debugger
 Download the “Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2013
preview”
 http://bit.ly/187fdCF
 Configure the Remote Debugger
 How to run?
 Run from existing solution file
 Open EXE as solution file
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11. Memory Dump
 Create a Memory Dump
 from Task Manager (x86 or x64 version)
 from EXE
 Open in Visual Studio
 Debug with Managed Memory (new to Visual Studio 2013)
 Debug with Managed
 Debug with Mixed
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12. Summary
 Some new things like Edit & Continue for x64
 Breakpoints, Data tips, Visualizers
 Debug Windows
 Code Interaction with Visual Studio Debugger
 Multi-threaded & Parallel debugging
 IntelliTrace
 Remote Debugging & Memory Dump
Delivering Awesome Web Applications

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Thank You!
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