C#® Developer's Guide to ASP.NET, XML, and ADO.NET

Chapter 3. Debugging ASP.NET Applications

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Tracing Your Web Application's Activity

• Debugging ASP.NET Applications

• Creating Custom Performance Monitors

• Writing to the Windows Event Log

• Reference

Debugging ASP.old applications was generally only slightly less painful than a trip to the dentist. There was a way to debug ASP.old applications, but it was poorly documented and essentially required Visual InterDev and a team of crack technicians, as well as favorable weather conditions and a whole lot of luck to work correctly.

Many ASP.old developers got into the habit of using code like the following as a way of creating breakpoints in their code:

Response.Write "DEBUG: Maybe this will work now."
Response.End

This is about the least-efficient ...