Fast Focus: Visual Studio Debugging & Diagnostics: Tips & Tricks
summary
Live demo debugs an open source app ShareX using Visual Studio features and Copilot: Copilot analyzes a System.InvalidOperationException, suggests and inserts a null check that is applied live via hot reload and edit-and-continue, fixing the crash so the app loads. Conditional breakpoints get three AI-generated expressions and an AI-written log message, breakpoint groups let the presenter toggle sets, and the Enumerable visualizer plus auto‑decompile for external sources reveal a wrong Rectangle API causing bad screenshot dimensions which is corrected and verified.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and Setup
- 1:06AI-Assisted Debugging
- 3:53Advanced Conditional Breakpoints
- 6:15Breakpoint Management Groups
- 7:42Data Visualization Tools
- 9:26Debugging External Sources
- 11:53AI-Powered Bug Investigation
- 15:43Summary and Resources
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