Debugging and Error Handling
What You Will Learn in this Chapter
Wrox.com Code Downloads for this Chapter
The wrox.com code downloads for this chapter are found at www.wrox.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=1118311813 on the Download Code tab. The code is in the 311813 C10.zip download and individually named according to the names given throughout the chapter.
Debugging is an essential part of any development project, as it helps you find errors both in your code and in your logic. Visual Studio 2012 has a sophisticated debugger built right into the development environment. This debugger is the same for all languages that Visual Studio 2012 supports. When you have mastered debugging in one language, you can debug in any language that you can write in Visual Studio 2012.
No matter how good your code is, there are always going to be some unexpected circumstances that will cause your code to fail. If you do not anticipate and handle errors, your users will see a default error message about an unhandled exception, which is provided by the common language runtime package. This is not a user-friendly message and usually does not clearly inform the user about what is going on or how to correct it.
This is where error handling comes in. Visual Studio 2012 also provides common structured error-handling functions that are used across all languages. These functions ...