Debugging ASP.NET

Chapter 3. Debugging Strategies

DEBUGGING WEB APPLICATIONS IS AN ART very much like warfare. Before entering into a battle, you create a plan of attack and then execute it to defeat your enemy. Few would consider such an engagement without a plan—thoughts of doing so conjure up images of soldiers blindly running at the enemy and throwing themselves into the path of gunfire.Yet, many developers attempt to engage in a debugging battle without any such plan or method.

Debugging under these circumstances might consist of randomly attempting different things, in vain hope that one of them (or a random combination of them) will solve the problem. Although ...