One of the most important concepts in modern programming is Exceptions. They were introduced in the 60's with LISP and eventually made their way to practically all modern programming languages. This article is an extensive guide to dealing with exceptions in Visual Studio.

This tutorial is part of a series: Part 1 – Getting started with Visual Studio Debugging Part 2 – Visual Studio Debugging Tool Windows In the previous tutorial, we saw some of the basics of debugging in Visual Studio. This included Breakpoints, Navigation through code, and Investigating variables with the DataTip and QuickWatch. In this tutorial we will go over all the windows Visual Studio has for debugging.

This tutorial is part of a series: Part 1 – Getting started with Visual Studio Debugging Part 2 – Visual Studio Debugging Tool Windows Unfortunately, writing code goes hand in hand with creating bugs. We all cause bugs, it’s one of the inevitable facts of life. This process of solving those bugs is called Debugging. Debugging comes in many forms: Stepping through the code with a debugger, investigating logs, unit testing, profiling, and analyzing dumps.