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We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to Microsoft Internet Information Services IIS version 7. Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Web Professional Upgrade' title='Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Web Professional Upgrade' />In this 2015 article we list the best free Windows programs available from Microsoft. Screenshot of Visual Studio 2013, editing a programs C source code. Developers Microsoft Stable release 2017 March 7, 2017 6 months ago Written in. Visual Studio. The Visual Studio debugger is a magical beast that can save you loads of time while finding and fixing issues in your application. It is chock full of tools that can make debugging easier if you know they exist, and where to find them Lets look at 7 lesser known goodies you can use to help you Super. Charge. Your. Debugging. Click to Set Next Statement. Volkswagen Transporter T4 Manual Pdf. Many of you may know about the context menu item Set Next Statement CtrlShiftF1. You may also know that you grab and drag the yellow arrow up and down in the gutter to move it. What you probably didnt know is that as of Visual Studio 2. Preview there is an even easier way to target a line and Set Next Statement. Hover over the line of code where you want to move the yellow arrow. Hold the CTRL key and notice the Run to Click Run execution to here glyph changes into the Set Next Statement glyph. Click on that glyph and the yellow arrow will move to that line. This line will be the next statement to execute when taking a step or pressing Continue F5. Break when a value changes. Have you been in a situation while debugging where you inspect an objects property at one breakpoint and by the time you get to the next breakpoint that property has changed unexpectedly. You can set a breakpoint on the setter in the class, but this breaks for every instance of the object type What if you only care about one problematic instance When debugging C code, Data Breakpoints can help you out. If you are debugging managed code, you can use Make Object ID plus a Conditional Breakpoint to narrow your search for the problem area. When you get to a breakpoint with the interesting instance right click on the object and select Make Object ID. This gives you a handle to that object in memory, referenced by 1. Go to the setter of the property you care about and add a condition to the breakpoint,this 1Press Continue F5 and now you will break in the setter when that property changes for that instance. Look at the Call Stack and double click on the previous frame. This will take you to the line of code that is changing the property for this specific instance of the object. Note The object ID refers to the objects address in memory and consequently will change with every new debug session. So, if you need to restart debugging, be sure to right click and re create the object ID. The handle 1 wont change, so you can leave your breakpoint as is between debug sessions. Reattach to Process. This is a true time saver introduced in Visual Stuido 2. It is extremely helpful when you are working on a project where you need to use Attach to Process but you find yourself consistently attaching to the same thing session after session. Start from the Attach to Processdialog CtrlAltP and select the process or processes that you want to debug and click Attach. When you terminate that debugging session go to the Debug menu on the toolbar. Click Reattach to Process or use shortcut key Shift AltP. For more in depth details about Reattach to Process check out this blog post. Show Threads in Source. Debugging a multithreaded application is rarely easy, but when you can see in the editor what lines of code each thread in currently on, it gets a lot better. In the debugger toolbar, toggle the button Show Threads in SourceA glyph will appear in the breakpoint gutter next to each line of code where at least one thread is currently stopped. Hover over the thread marker icon to see the thread ids and names for all threads currently stopped on that line of code. Right click on the thread to see available actions you can perform like freezing and switching the active thread. Note This functionality comes with some performance overhead and can feel like it slows down debugging. We recommend turning it off when you arent actively using it. Step through one single thread without jumping around. How often are you debugging multithreaded code, when you hit your first breakpoint, take a step, and then suddenly you are stopped with the yellow arrow on another thread The unexpected behavior comes from the breakpoint still being set and consequently being hit. By default, the debugger will stop on a breakpoint any time it is hit. This means that when you take a step, all threads are allowed to run, and one of your running threads hit this breakpoint before the step completes on your current thread. Next time you get in this situation try this Disable or delete the breakpoint that has been hit by the new thread the debugger switched to. Press Continue F5Observe how your first initial step on that first thread completes and now is the active debugging context. Since your breakpoints are deleted or disabled, you can continue stepping on that single thread without interruption. Debug. List. Call. Stacks all. Threads. When there are lots of threads, there can be lots of call stacks to figure out. You may need to inspect all of them to get a good picture of what state your application is in. You can always see a visual representation of the call stacks for each thread by using the Parallel Stacks window DebugWindows Parallel Stacks. You can also see a text based, copypaste able version of the call stack for each thread using the Command window. Open the Command Window ViewOther WindowsCommand Window. Type Debug. List. Call. Stacks all. ThreadsYou can also use the popular Win. DBG command kSee how each thread is listed with its call stack displayed in the window. Side Effect Free Function Evaluation, nseHave you ever innocently typed an expression into the Watch window or Immediate window, then had to deal with the side effects of a debug session where you changed the state of the application without meaning to Often this can happen when trying to evaluate an expression that calls a function in your program and it causes side effects state changes to the program without running the actual application. While this may be okay if you know what functions will be called, what if youre not sure Here is a way to evaluate expressions in C without the risk of side effects corrupting your program. You can add, nse stands for No Side Effects after any expression you type into the Watch window or Immediate window. This will use a sandbox of sorts that will interpret the expression without causing any side effects. If the expression cant be interpreted and can only be resolved by an evaluation, it will show you an error in the window. If you are sure that you want to evaluate it anyway, remove the, nse modifier and try again. Learned Something Let us know What is your favorite lesser known debugging feature Comment below Kaycee Anderson, Program manager, Visual Studio Debugger, and DiagnosticsKaycee. Sue. Kaycee is a program manager working on the Visual Studio Debugger. She is passionate about delighting developers with core debugging experiences to help them find and fix issues in their code faster. She wants to help you Super. Charge. Your. Debugging. Microsoft Visual Studio Wikipedia. Microsoft Visual Studio. Screenshot of Visual Studio 2. C source code. DevelopersMicrosoft. Stable release. 20. March 7, 2. 01. 7 7 months ago 2. Written in. C and C2Operating system. Available in. Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese Brazil, Russian, Spanish and Turkish4Type. Integrated development environment. License. Freemium5Websitewww. Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment IDE from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs for Microsoft Windows, as well as web sites, web apps, web services and mobile apps. Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such as Windows API, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Store and Microsoft Silverlight. It can produce both native code and managed code. Visual Studio includes a code editor supporting Intelli. Sense the code completion component as well as code refactoring. The integrated debugger works both as a source level debugger and a machine level debugger. Other built in tools include a code profiler, forms designer for building GUI applications, web designer, class designer, and database schema designer. It accepts plug ins that enhance the functionality at almost every levelincluding adding support for source control systems like Subversion and adding new toolsets like editors and visual designers for domain specific languages or toolsets for other aspects of the software development lifecycle like the Team Foundation Server client Team Explorer. Visual Studio supports 3. Built in languages include C,6C and CCLI via Visual C, VB. NET via Visual Basic. NET, C via Visual C, F as of Visual Studio 2. Type. Script as of Visual Studio 2. Update 2. Support for other languages such as Python,8Ruby, Node. M among others is available via language services installed separately. It also supports XMLXSLT, HTMLXHTML, Java. Script and CSS. Java and J were supported in the past. Microsoft provides a free version of Visual Studio called the Community edition that supports plugins and is available at no cost. ArchitectureeditVisual Studio does not support any programming language, solution or tool intrinsically instead, it allows the plugging of functionality coded as a VSPackage. When installed, the functionality is available as a Service. The IDE provides three services SVs. Solution, which provides the ability to enumerate projects and solutions SVs. UIShell, which provides windowing and UI functionality including tabs, toolbars and tool windows and SVs. Shell, which deals with registration of VSPackages. In addition, the IDE is also responsible for coordinating and enabling communication between services. All editors, designers, project types and other tools are implemented as VSPackages. Visual Studio uses COM to access the VSPackages. The Visual Studio SDK also includes the Managed Package Framework MPF, which is a set of managed wrappers around the COM interfaces that allow the Packages to be written in any CLI compliant language. However, MPF does not provide all the functionality exposed by the Visual Studio COM interfaces. The services can then be consumed for creation of other packages, which add functionality to the Visual Studio IDE. Support for programming languages is added by using a specific VSPackage called a Language Service. A language service defines various interfaces which the VSPackage implementation can implement to add support for various functionalities. Functionalities that can be added this way include syntax coloring, statement completion, brace matching, parameter information tooltips, member lists and error markers for background compilation. If the interface is implemented, the functionality will be available for the language. Language services are implemented on a per language basis. The implementations can reuse code from the parser or the compiler for the language. Language services can be implemented either in native code or managed code. For native code, either the native COM interfaces or the Babel Framework part of Visual Studio SDK can be used. For managed code, the MPF includes wrappers for writing managed language services. Visual Studio does not include any source control support built in but it defines two alternative ways for source control systems to integrate with the IDE. A Source Control VSPackage can provide its own customised user interface. In contrast, a source control plugin using the MSSCCI Microsoft Source Code Control Interface provides a set of functions that are used to implement various source control functionality, with a standard Visual Studio user interface. MSSCCI was first used to integrate Visual Source. Safe with Visual Studio 6. Visual Studio SDK. Visual Studio. NET 2. MSSCCI 1. 1, and Visual Studio. NET 2. 00. 3 used MSSCCI 1. Visual Studio 2. 00. MSSCCI Version 1. Visual Studio supports running multiple instances of the environment each with its own set of VSPackages. The instances use different registry hives see MSDNs definition of the term registry hive in the sense used here to store their configuration state and are differentiated by their App. Id Application ID. The instances are launched by an App. Id specific. exe that selects the App. Id, sets the root hive and launches the IDE. VSPackages registered for one App. Id are integrated with other VSPackages for that App. Id. The various product editions of Visual Studio are created using the different App. Ids. The Visual Studio Express edition products are installed with their own App. Ids, but the Standard, Professional and Team Suite products share the same App. Id. Consequently, one can install the Express editions side by side with other editions, unlike the other editions which update the same installation. The professional edition includes a superset of the VSPackages in the standard edition and the team suite includes a superset of the VSPackages in both other editions. The App. Id system is leveraged by the Visual Studio Shell in Visual Studio 2. FeatureseditCode editoreditLike any other IDE, it includes a code editor that supports syntax highlighting and code completion using Intelli. Sense for variables, functions, methods, loops and LINQ queries. Intelli. Sense is supported for the included languages, as well as for XML and for Cascading Style Sheets and Java. Script when developing web sites and web applications. Autocomplete suggestions appear in a modelesslist box over the code editor window, in proximity of the editing cursor. In Visual Studio 2. The code editor is used for all supported languages. The Visual Studio code editor also supports setting bookmarks in code for quick navigation. Other navigational aids include collapsing code blocks and incremental search, in addition to normal text search and regex search. The code editor also includes a multi item clipboard and a task list. The code editor supports code snippets, which are saved templates for repetitive code and can be inserted into code and customized for the project being worked on. A management tool for code snippets is built in as well. These tools are surfaced as floating windows which can be set to automatically hide when unused or docked to the side of the screen. The Visual Studio code editor also supports code refactoring including parameter reordering, variable and method renaming, interface extraction and encapsulation of class members inside properties, among others. Visual Studio features background compilation also called incremental compilation. As code is being written, Visual Studio compiles it in the background in order to provide feedback about syntax and compilation errors, which are flagged with a red wavy underline. Warnings are marked with a green underline.