Hi All,

Can anybody explain how to debug an ASP.NET web Appplication.


Sabita

Bugs are a fact of the programmer's life.

Debugging an ASP.NET Web Application

Two main areas of finding and fixing errors in your program - Tracing and Debugging.

1. Tracing: the process of collecting information about a program’s execution and
2. Debugging: the overlapping topic of finding and fixing errors in your program

We shall look both at the inherent supporting features provided by the .NET framework and ASP.NET and the additional tools provided by VS.NET over the course of the two articles.

Tracing

Tracing is the ability of an application to generate information about its own execution. The idea is that subsequent analysis of this information may help us understand why a part of the application is not behaving as it should and allow identification of the source of the error.

We shall look at two different ways of implementing tracing in .NET

1. via the System.Web.TraceContext class
2. via the System.Diagnostics.Trace and System.Diagnostics.Debug classes

Tracing can be thought of as a better (more featureful and automated) alternative to the response.writes you used to put in your old ASP3.0 code to help debug pages!

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