Sams Teach Yourself C#™ in 24 Hours

Hour 16. Debugging Your Code

No one writes perfect code. You're most certainly familiar with those problems that prevent code from executing properly—they're called bugs. Being new to C#, your code will probably contain a fair number of bugs. As you gain proficiency, the number of bugs in your code will decrease, but they will never disappear entirely. Debugging is a skill and an art. This book can't teach you how to debug every possible build or runtime error you may encounter; however, in this hour you will learn the basic skills necessary to trace and correct most bugs in your code.

The highlights of this hour include the following:

• Adding comments to your code

• Identifying the two basic types of errors

• Working with break points

• Using the Command ...