Debugger Tips, Tricks and Tools #3

posted by  techgeek (12)  16 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Use tracepoints to log execution flow and even modify it!

You may or may not know about tracepoints one of the cool new features of Visual Studio 2005.  Basically a tracepoint is just like a breakpoint, except it doesn't break execution of your program.  What use is it then?  Well, rather than break, they allow you to print a message when they are "hit". This functionality is fairly obvious in its usefullness, I think (hope).

For you newbies out there, to create a tracepoint,