Summary

The .NET Framework supplies developers with an adequate stock of components and technologies aimed squarely at improving the quality of applications. In this chapter, we have looked at a few of these items that are focused on the task of debugging applications. We covered

  • Implementing structured exception handlers

  • Instrumenting applications using the Debug and Trace classes

  • Controlling the actions of the Debug and Trace classes through switches

  • Leveraging stock and custom performance counters for general application performance profiling

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