How to Test and Debug an ASP.NET Application

Microsoft .NET Framework, ASP.NET, Visual C# (CSharp, C Sharp, C-Sharp) Developer Training, Visual Studio

This article—How to Test and Debug an ASP.NET Application—is from ASP.NET 2.0 Web Programming with C# 2005, by Joel Murach and Anne Boehm. Copyright © 2006 Mike Murach & Associates. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. This article has been edited especially for C# Online.NET.  Read the book review!

This tutorial explains how to debug your ASP.NET application using the Visual Studio integrated debugger and the Trace feature of ASP.NET.

How to test and debug an ASP.NET application

If you’ve done much programming, you know that testing and debugging are often the most difficult and time-consuming phase of program development. Fortunately, Visual Studio includes an integrated debugger that can help you locate and correct even the most obscure bugs. And ASP.NET includes a Trace feature that displays useful information as your ASP.NET pages execute.

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to use both of these powerful debugging tools. But first, you’ll learn how to create web sites that run under IIS so that you can test them with that web server, and you’ll learn how to test an application to determine if it works properly.