Debugging Basics Summary

This section walked through the many phases of debugging and introduced the basic concepts of executing code line by line inside Visual Studio. If you are familiar with prior IDE versions, you probably noticed a lot of similarities. This section showed the many tools inside the debugging environment, including the Debug toolbar and menu, the Breakpoints window, the Watch window, and so on. Now that you have a grasp of the basics, in the next section we intend to explore these debug elements in greater detail.