Great for code that breaks VS dev enviroment

Greg — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:51:55 GMT

I used this to find out why the VS designer could not load/edit an ASP VB.NET page. It would give an exception when loading the page in the designer.

I used VS to debug itself and set it to break on all exceptions.

The problem was a constant in the ASP VB.NET page called a .net function to read a value from the config file. This code was executed before the rest of the page was processed. When running in the VS designer, there is no web config file to read and therefore an exception was thrown.

We found this when cleaning up a 200,000+ line ASP VB.net application built by our offshore team. It was found when we tried to load each and every GUI element in the application in the designer and found that a few of them had issues due to faulty hand tweaking of the VS generated GUI code.

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Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:57:46 GMT

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You can use Visual Studio to debug itself!

Great for code that breaks VS dev enviroment

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