Summary

Debugging is an important part of software development, and with Classic ASP, it was generally a challenge. ASP.NET goes a long way toward bringing the process of debugging up to the level that developers have come to expect from established languages like Visual Basic or Visual C++. The tracing and diagnostic libraries of the .NET framework make it much easier to determine what your code is doing, and Visual Studio.NET's integrated debugger makes it easy to step through ASP and component code even when it involves several different languages.

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For a more complete reference on debugging ASP.NET applications, consider Debugging ASP.NET, from New Riders Publishing, by Jonathan Goodyear and Brian Peek.

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