Debugging videos anyone?

I am considering creating some videos showing some debugging tips. My original idea is to create short videos that just some doing some specific things. So not full debug sessions, but rather specific parts. So that when you are debugging, you can use these videos to help you troubleshoot and figure out what to do next.

What I would like to know, do you think this is a good idea? Would you be interested in seeing videos?

I’d really like to hear your feedback and suggestions. Also if you want to me to create them, I’d also like to hear what topics you would like me to create videos about. Any topic is fair game as long as it is something that I know about. The tags hopefully will give some ideas.

Published 04 April 08 02:47 by Tom

Filed under: ASP.NET, Debugging, IIS, .NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, Videos

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# DotNetKicks.com said on April 4, 2008 2:48 PM:

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# Philipp Küng said on April 4, 2008 4:36 PM:

Yes I would appreciate it, if you would make some videos. Than as like me not everyone is able to visit a professional learning course, and then getting these things here would be a great support for us.

Hopefully I've convinced you :-)

# Tom said on April 4, 2008 4:46 PM:

Thanks... I appreciate you letting me know.

# Nate said on April 4, 2008 5:20 PM:

That sounds really great! I think there's a lot that I don't know so I can't give you any suggestions.

I hope you create them though!

# Tiamat said on April 4, 2008 6:41 PM:

That would be great! please let us know!

# segFault said on April 4, 2008 6:43 PM:

That would be key...oool matey.

Cant wait to hear your dulcit tone...

# Mark said on April 4, 2008 6:49 PM:

Hi Tom,

Yes. I know that I use some fairly basic debugging techniques and I'm sure I could be doing things far more efficiently. I would love to see some good debugging videos.

Mark

# Dave Hickey said on April 4, 2008 7:04 PM:

That would be awesome! I'd suggest walking through your most typical scenarios, perhaps debugging 50x errors, debugging blocked threads, unexpected app pool recycling (and the app pool recycle reasons we see in http sys err log). Maybe request tracing with ReqMon and IISTrace.

# NEXT said on April 4, 2008 8:39 PM:

SURE..i AM interested TO SEE SOME DEBUGGING USING wINdbg and similar tools..

# Anthony Grace said on April 4, 2008 10:48 PM:

Great idea. I would really like to see how to use the debugger properly...

# Chirag said on April 4, 2008 11:18 PM:

Yep, that would surely help a lot of developers.

# Siva Rama Raju said on April 5, 2008 12:27 AM:

Yes it is really a good idea. It will be more helpfull for the developers.

# LDJ said on April 5, 2008 4:46 AM:

sounds like an excellent idea. Any new tips/tricks in VS has to be a bonus. Will look forward to seeing them :)

# ryangaraygay said on April 5, 2008 6:16 AM:

Hi Tom,

It would be great to have. Though I'm not really a hard core "debugger", so some basics on the tools used and discussed here would be appreciated too.

# Quyen Nguyen said on April 5, 2008 9:36 AM:

Debugging is always important work to do in developing. I support you creating videos for everybody as beginner.

# Kevin Babcock said on April 5, 2008 11:00 AM:

Debugging tips are always welcome. I think your idea of shorter, specific videos is a great one. I don't always have the time to site through a 30 - 45 min video which contains 50% of information I already know. A 3-4 min video covering a specific tip would be most welcome.

# Pawel Pabich said on April 5, 2008 11:29 AM:

That would be great. I would start small (simple topics, short videos) and then wait for feedback

# Muhammad Adnan said on April 5, 2008 4:18 PM:

yes thats great idea. i have learned a lot from www.asp.net/learn/videos but there was no video about asp.net debugging, m sure this would be great addition in asp.net community and our knowledge ofcourse.

kindly make videos about setting up debugging env as well and ofcourse debugging commands (can you provide a list ;) with some brief description atleast) and how we can use remote debuggers hehehe i think i m getting free :$ now. anyhow

thanks in advance. pls go ahead

# eliassal said on April 5, 2008 7:32 PM:

Yeah, wonderfull idea,it would be nice to start with realapplication, creating dump, then searching information in the dump

# Josh Coswell said on April 5, 2008 9:24 PM:

It will be nice to see the videos.

Josh Coswell

http://riverasp.net

# Tom said on April 5, 2008 11:10 PM:

Thanks everyone. I will keep all these in mind. If you have any other suggestions, I'd love to hear them.. So keep them coming.

# Al said on April 6, 2008 2:01 PM:

Great idea. Please do create videos. Personally, I learn more by watching than reading.

# Tanner said on April 7, 2008 9:26 AM:

yes videos would help. Anything to build my debugging skills helps me.

# Eric said on April 7, 2008 10:04 AM:

All I know about debugging is in VS by adding breakpoints. Increasing my knowledge in that area would definatly be a plus.

# shree said on April 8, 2008 2:38 PM:

why not you post few and track the downloads?personally i wud love to see those

# dario said on April 17, 2008 6:00 PM:

Great Idea!! Mayby from novice to advanced debuging videos?

# Sachin said on April 26, 2008 5:04 AM:

Please can you make some video on following topic

1) Debugging Silverlight 2.0 on asp.net 3.5

2) Silverlight 2.0 Calling WCF Service (json , atom and etc)

# Tom said on April 26, 2008 9:01 AM:

Sachin,

Thanks for the suggestions. I will see what I can do.

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