Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2012 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit

Hour 15. Debugging Your Code

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

• Adding comments to your code

• Identifying the two basic types of errors

• Working with break points

• Using the Immediate window

• Creating a structured error handler

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