Comments on: Improve your debugging: Debugging Attributes to make your life easier http://www.acorns.com.au/blog/?p=128 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:59:44 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Debugging Attributes « Roman’s Blog http://www.acorns.com.au/blog/?p=128&cpage=1#comment-128 Debugging Attributes « Roman’s Blog Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:17:47 +0000 http://www.acorns.com.au/blog/?p=128#comment-128 [...] info By Roman Hnatiuk Categories: .Net and Debugging Improve your debugging: Debugging Attributes to make your life easier post talkes about several interesting attributes that make debugging easier - [...] [...] info By Roman Hnatiuk Categories: .Net and Debugging Improve your debugging: Debugging Attributes to make your life easier post talkes about several interesting attributes that make debugging easier - [...]

]]> By: Corneliu http://www.acorns.com.au/blog/?p=128&cpage=1#comment-127 Corneliu Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:23:48 +0000 http://www.acorns.com.au/blog/?p=128#comment-127 Michael, Thanks for the nice words. I planned to post it during last weekend but was too busy. I'll try to do it soon as I have to do a proper blog post with it. Regards, Corneliu Michael,
Thanks for the nice words. I planned to post it during last weekend but was too busy. I’ll try to do it soon as I have to do a proper blog post with it.
Regards,
Corneliu

]]> By: Michael Lyons http://www.acorns.com.au/blog/?p=128&cpage=1#comment-126 Michael Lyons Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:52:52 +0000 http://www.acorns.com.au/blog/?p=128#comment-126 You did a fantastic session in Melbourne the other night. When will the powerpoint slides be available from your talk? You did a fantastic session in Melbourne the other night. When will the powerpoint slides be available from your talk?

]]> By: Debugging Attributes « Microsoft Technology, .Net, BizTalk, Sharepoint & etc. http://www.acorns.com.au/blog/?p=128&cpage=1#comment-125 Debugging Attributes « Microsoft Technology, .Net, BizTalk, Sharepoint & etc. Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:21:01 +0000 http://www.acorns.com.au/blog/?p=128#comment-125 [...] it out on his blog http://www.acorns.com.au/blog/?p=128 [...] [...] it out on his blog http://www.acorns.com.au/blog/?p=128 [...]

]]> By: Justin Chase http://www.acorns.com.au/blog/?p=128&cpage=1#comment-124 Justin Chase Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:29:34 +0000 http://www.acorns.com.au/blog/?p=128#comment-124 I've overridden ToString() more than a few times to try to customize my debugger visualization but this is clearly a much better way to do it! I'll be using these. Thanks. I’ve overridden ToString() more than a few times to try to customize my debugger visualization but this is clearly a much better way to do it!

I’ll be using these. Thanks.

]]> By: Jeff Brown http://www.acorns.com.au/blog/?p=128&cpage=1#comment-123 Jeff Brown Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:30:29 +0000 http://www.acorns.com.au/blog/?p=128#comment-123 These attributes are indeed useful when writing framework code. You can significantly improve the debugging experience with a little extra work. The DebuggerHiddenAttribute is also quite handy. Among other things, MbUnit v3 filters stack traces in test failure messages based on the presence of this attribute and a couple of others. Filtering can significantly reduce the cognitive load for grokking the failure because irrelevant internal (and assumed correct) implementation details are hidden. For example, it's not terribly useful to see the intermediate stack frames involved in MethodBase.Invoke() and other constructs that the BCL and test framework use. These attributes are indeed useful when writing framework code. You can significantly improve the debugging experience with a little extra work.

The DebuggerHiddenAttribute is also quite handy. Among other things, MbUnit v3 filters stack traces in test failure messages based on the presence of this attribute and a couple of others.

Filtering can significantly reduce the cognitive load for grokking the failure because irrelevant internal (and assumed correct) implementation details are hidden. For example, it’s not terribly useful to see the intermediate stack frames involved in MethodBase.Invoke() and other constructs that the BCL and test framework use.

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