Red Box Debugging

posted by  varson (7)  12 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Today I have a simple debugging tip.

Sometimes when you have an obscure bug, you need to answer the question "is my code even getting executed?" Often you can find that really obscure bugs are caused simply by a bad conditional, a typo, an unexpected exception, or some other flow-control issue that bypasses your code altogether.

Whilst you can use an interactive debugger such as Microsoft Visual Studio for tracking down some of these things, debuggers aren't always available (eg, if you are on a hardware emulator), and if the bug is timing-related then they hamper you