Advanced Debugging Using IntelliTrace

Patrick YongChief Technology Office | IPS Infonomicshttp://patrickyong.net

Agenda

IntelliTrace – The Basics

IntelliTrace and Testers

IntelliTrace and Team Build

Visual Studio Debugging Tips

Patrick Yong

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CTO, IPS InfonomicsSharePoint and Azure Training + Consultancy

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http://www.ipsinfonomics.com

What is IntelliTrace?

Helps eliminate the “no repro” scenario

Basic Idea: capture debugger state information during program execution

What gets collected?

Collects:IntelliTrace Events

Method entry/exit calls

Breakpoints

IntelliTrace and Testers - Scenario

Nightly Team Build runs

Tester run their test cases against the buildBehind the scenes while testing, IntelliTrace information is being captured

Tester files a bug with an attached IntelliTracefile

Developer opens the attached IntelliTrace log file

IntelliTrace and Team Build

Symbol Files.PDB files

Used during the debugging process

Includes Source File Names, Line Numbers and Local Variable Names

You should always keep your symbol files around

Symbol ServerCentral location for storing your PDB files

Essentially this is just a file share

Symbol and Source Servers

To Set Up a Symbol ServerCreate a file share to hold the PDB Files

Add this file share to the Build Definition in Team Build

Source Server IndexingModifies information in the PDB to include

Source Control provider information

Command-line utility to retrieve files (tf.exe)

Full TFS Version Control Repository Path including branch name

Version

Visual Studio Debugging Tips

Breakpoint LabelingAllows you to group/filter on a collection of breakpoints

Import/Export Breakpoints

Pinnable Data Tips

Import Export Data Tips

Conditional Breakpoints

Breakpoint Hit Count

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