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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 6:30 PM

How to Count the Lines of Code (LOC) in your application using Visual Studio

I was talking to someone the other day and he asked me whether Visual Studio has a tool to count the lines of code in an application. It occurred to me that others might be interested in the answer so I decided to blog about it. There is a tool called
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Monday, October 26, 2009 10:23 PM

Looking for questions or feedback on IntelliTrace

During the last few months, I've been blogging extensively about a new Visual Studio 2010 feature called IntelliTrace (formerly known as the "Historical Debugger"). We are very excited about IntelliTrace and think that it's going to change how
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Friday, October 23, 2009 9:30 PM

Using IntelliTrace to view the return value of a VB or C# method

A few months ago, I blogged about how to view the return value of a C# or VB method in the Visual Studio debugger. As I explained in that blog post, the debugger does not support viewing the return value of a .NET method, so you have to apply a workaround
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:53 AM

IntelliTrace is not available. Why?

When using IntelliTrace, you might run across the following error message in the IntelliTrace window: IntelliTrace is not available. See the Debugger Output window or the Windows Application Events Log. Below is a list of reasons why you might see the
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:05 PM

The future of debugging is here! Visual Studio 2010 now supports stepping back in the debugger.

In my previous post Getting Started with Visual Studio 2010 IntelliTrace: Hello IntelliTrace! , I described how to use the new IntelliTrace feature in Visual Studio 2010 to debug an application. But there's more to IntelliTrace. IntelliTrace also allows
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 7:41 PM

Getting Started with Visual Studio 2010 IntelliTrace: Hello IntelliTrace!

One of the most talked about features in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is IntelliTrace. In a nutshell, IntelliTrace allows a developer to record the application execution and play it back. Using IntelliTrace, a developer can do some cool things like step
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Monday, October 19, 2009 9:01 AM

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2: The Historical Debugger is now IntelliTrace!

Over the last few months, I've blogged a fair amount about a new feature in Visual Studio 2010 called the Historical Debugger. With the announcement of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 also comes a name change for the Historical Debugger. It is now called IntelliTrace™.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:31 AM

Debugging a COM object (Runtime Callable Wrapper) with Visual Studio 2010

If you have written managed code that uses a COM object, then you are probably familiar with System.__ComObject . When a COM object lacks a Runtime Callable Wrapper (RCW), the CLR provides a generic RCW which is an instance of the type "System.__ComObject".
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Monday, September 21, 2009 12:04 AM

Coverage of the Visual Studio 2010 Historical Debugger

During the last couple of months, I've covered the Historical Debugger extensively. If you are interested in learning more about this new feature in Visual Studio 2010, the following blog entries should help you get started. An in depth look at the Historical
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Friday, September 18, 2009 8:48 PM

An in depth look at the Historical Debugger in Visual Studio 2010 (Part VI)

In previous blogs, I have covered the Historical Debugger extensively and talked about many of the scenarios. In this post, I'll walk through another scenario where the Historical Debugger is very useful which is Load Testing. When loading testing an
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009 11:08 PM

How to debug an exception with the Visual Studio 2010 Historical Debugger

In a previous blog , I covered how to debug a LINQ to SQL query using the Historical Debugger. In this blog, I'll discuss using the Historical Debugger to debug an exception. The are a couple of reasons why the Historical Debugger is so useful when it
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Friday, July 31, 2009 6:04 AM

Discover dead code in your application using Code Analysis

Last weekend, I spent a good 30 minutes trying to figure out why I wasn't hitting a breakpoint in a method. Admittedly, I wasn't very familiar with the code since I hadn't written it. It turned out that the method wasn't being called from anywhere, so
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Monday, July 27, 2009 7:46 AM

Visual Studio 2010 RIP List (Partial)

Like any software product, with every new release of Visual Studio, we add numerous new features to support additional scenarios, improve existing features based on customer feedback and occasionally, we remove some features based on a number of factors
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 1:52 PM

The anatomy of the Historical Debugger Navigation Bar (Navbar)

In a recent Channel 9 10-4 video, Brian Keller introduced the Historical Debugger in Visual Studio Team System 2010. One of the features that he described in his video was the Historical Debugger Navigation Bar (Navbar) which he used to step back in the
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Thursday, July 16, 2009 10:49 AM

Code Analysis and NaN (Not a Number)

Code Analysis in Visual Studio Team System can be extremely helpful when it comes to pointing out subtle bugs that are hard to detect even via code inspection. One example is dealing with NaN. NaN which stands for Not a Number , represents a constant
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