Comprehensive VB .NET Debugging [Paperback]

Mark Pearce (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 28, 2003

Visual Studio .NET, and more specifically, Visual Basic .NET give developers more productivity and more power to develop applications, but at the cost of a complex development environment together with a whole new set of potential bugs. Debugging VB .NET Development analyzes the new defect types that arise with VB.NET, and investigates the debugging of every type of VB.NET application together with many common debugging scenarios. Mark Pearce also shows developers how to use the powerful new .NET debugging tools to find bugs wherever they hide, even deep inside distributed applications.

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About the Author

Mark Pearce is a freelance consultant and developer specializing in the design and construction of investment banking IT systems. He specializes in software quality processes and has consulted for many blue-chip clients including Citigroup, Nomura, Barclays Capital, Lehmans, Enron, British Petroleum, and Citibank. His other major areas of interest include database design, middleware messaging, and distributed applications. In a previous life, Mark was a professional chess player who paid for his chess-playing bug with near-starvation. His current hobbies of snowmobiling and mountain running are less energetic and much more fun.

Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: A-Press; 1 edition (April 28, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590590503
• ISBN-13: 978-1590590508
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,926,878 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant - Comprehensive Coverage On VB.NET Debugging, November 11, 2004

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Janice Maloney (Omaha, NE United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Comprehensive VB .NET Debugging (Paperback)

This book is a must read for anyone doing VB.NET development work. I felt so lucky when I found this book because I haven't found a book like this on the market for .NET debugging. This isn't just a book you read through once, and set aside, as it will definitely become a permanent part of your reference library. The author did an absolutely exceptional job in comprehensively covering debugging techniques and issues from everything from ASP.NET, SQL Server, Windows Forms, Web Services, to Classic VB, and the depth of knowledge this author shares about such things as debugging tools, approaches to take towards a project, and how to really fully use Visual Studio .NET's debugger are never taught in college courses. There is even a full chapter on debugging multithreaded applications, which the author even mentions that most Visual Basic programmers are unfamiliar with. I got this book initially to study Visual Studio .NET's debugger capabilities, and learn about debugging techniques, but I was amazed at the volumes of information. This book is so versatile that you can match the debugging techniques to the type of project your might be faced with, and that's why I say again "It's going to be a great reference book to keep handy by your desk." The detailed information on such things as utilizing Visual Studio. NET's debugger is much better, and easier to understand than information I have seen on Microsoft's Website. So many different debugging scenarios are covered, but just as example, in Visual Studio .NET the author explains how to attach the debugger to a process, or how to debug programs without loading them into the IDE, such as a production component that is currently running, or a Web service running on another machine, and gives a very thorough breakdown on the general debugging options in Visual Studio .NET. This book even offers great insight into why bugs even happen in an application in the first place. What I also enjoyed about this book is that I could jump ahead to any chapter I wanted to read. The writing style is smooth, and easy to follow. The examples given are endless.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is serious about doing .NET development work!

5.0 out of 5 stars good leads on avoiding pitfalls, June 13, 2006

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arzewski (pittsburgh, pa United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Comprehensive VB .NET Debugging (Paperback)

Really enjoyed the discussion on traps and pitfalls, and the differences that the VB.NET language has with C#. Coming from a C# background and having to deal with VB.NET in a later project, had to confront many subtle differences. This book goes very well with ".NET Gotchas"