C# Unleashed

Chapter 31. Runtime Debugging

In This Chapter

• Simple Debugging

• Conditional Debugging

• Runtime Tracing

• Making Assertions

There are several situations where runtime debugging and tracing are desirable. Often it's easy to turn on debugging in a program, let it run, and watch a console screen for specific printouts representing the state of the program during execution. This is a quick way of isolating system failures during development.

For critical code, it may be useful to install a runtime trace facility. This provides a means to capture real-time information on production code and interact with administrators or analysts on what could be causing a problem.

The system libraries have facilities for supporting runtime debugging and tracing. This includes ...