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- [Instructor] A code map is a way of visualizing what your code is doing at any moment in time, and it's dynamic, or I should say the way we're going to look at it is dynamic. You can create a code map to analyze your code, put it in a project, save it as a GML file. And what we're going to do is generate the code map on the fly while we're debugging the code. And this is useful when you're looking at code that you don't remember because it's been a long time since you worked on it, or when you're looking at unfamiliar code, or when you're looking at an open source project and you need to get a better idea what's happening in the code. So the way it works is, while you're at your break point, you want to go to Debug and then choose this Show Call Stack on Code Map. If you don't see this, it means you haven't installed the Code Map feature or you don't have Visual Studio Enterprise. So click on this, bring this up…

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