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(More customer reviews)This book sumarrizes the basic principles of .NET debugging quite well. The first three chapters concentrate on general debugging ideas without being very technical. The next five concentrate on very specific parts of .NET (assertions, logging, ASP .NET/SQL, remote debugging, multithreading). Chapters 9 and 10 return to a somewhat non-technical focus by talking about bug tracking and source code control.
The author talks mostly from personal experiences ("I had a coworker who did this. On further investigation, we determined that were doing [the basis of this chapter's section] wrong.") This makes the book engaging, but a few times, it leads the author into tangents on COM and interop. As someone who writes in 100% managed code, I didn't find those tangets particularly useful. I appreciated the absence of grammatical errors and poorly constructed sentences.
Chapter 9 ("Defect Tracking Programs", aka bug management), Chapter 8 ("Multithreading"), and the first 3 chapters were very well-written with a good number of "Aha!" moments. Even chapters that concentrated on technologies that I do not directly use every day (ASP .NET, logging with TraceListener, remote debugging) were comprehensible without previous domain knowledge.
Be warned that the few code snippets in this book are in C#.
I also recommend ".NET Gotchas" which goes into the idiosyncrasies of C# and VB. Who knows, armed with that knowledge, you might never have to debug! :-)
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Debugging Strategies for .NET Developers is a highly readable exploration of debugging with Microsoft .NET. While many other debugging books focus on obscure techniques for advanced users, this book is packed with real-world examples&emdash;designed for real-world developers&emdash;that convey specific techniques in concert with overall debugging strategies.
This book teaches you how to think in terms of debugging with Microsoft .NET. Author Darin Dillon describes debugging concepts, such as assertions and logging, and follows each discussion with first-hand accounts of using these strategies to solve real-world bugs. The book will not only provide you with the techniques, but it will make you a master at recognizing when and how the techniques need to be applied.
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