UPDATE: Don's slides and content are here: www.vicdotnet.org//Content/DonKiely-ASP.NETDebugging.zip
Don Kiely - Advanced .NET Debugging
Don Kiely, MVP, MCSD, MSDE, is a senior technology consultant specializing in developing desktop and Web applications that integrate databases, Microsoft Office, and related technologies, using tools including SQL Server, ASP.NET and XML. Don trains developers and speaks regularly at industry conferences, including TechEd, VSLive!, DevConnections, and others. He earned a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the University of Colorado, but fortunately learned the error of his establishment ways. In his spare time he roams the Alaska wilderness by foot, dog sled, skis, and kayak, with his dogs Mardy and Izzi.
Title: "Power ASP.NET Debugging"
Description: The debugging features in Visual Studio are a marvel of the modern software world, with rich support for data visualization, customizing objects to improve debugging, and many other features. Far too often, however, developers fall back on the familiar Step Into and Watch window to solve problems, tediously stepping through line by line by line by…. And even if you use other debugging features, often the problem is that these features produce far too much information, making the debugging experience more of a data mining excursion than a logical approach to problem solving. During this session we'll explore many of the new and improved debugging features in Visual Studio 2005, including standard and custom features, how to customize an object to help with debugging, some of the more obscure debugging windows and framework debugging classes, and how to make ASP.NET debugging far more productive.
NOTE: Some of the tools and concepts in this talk are available in WinForms applications, but the focus is primarily on ASP.NET technologies.
Intended Audience Skill Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Topics:
- What’s new, cool, and underused in Visual Studio 2005?
- Customizing debugging for specific objects
- Write your own debugging visualizers
- Setup and debug client-side and resource file scripts
- Advanced tracing with TraceSource
- Using assertions in ASP.NET
Date/Time: Tuesday November 13th, 2007 from 6:30-9:30pm
Location: University of Victoria, New Engineering and Computer Science Building, Room ECS128 see map
Note: We have moved to a new room! We've been having problems getting the key for our evening meetings, so to keep things simple we are moving to the main floor of the same building.
Registration: Please register for the event. You can also send an email to event@vicdotnet.org with the subject heading of "Nov 13th Event"