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Use breakpoints effectively

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Use breakpoints effectively

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- [Instructor] Breakpoints are a fundamental tool in debugging application code. In this video, I'll show you some of the breakpoint basics. The first step is to look at our code. I'm in a WPF application. The code that we'll be exploring is in this MainWindow.xaml. It has two buttons here, and if you look at the code behind, there's two click handlers. In this first button handler, I'm declaring some variables and then I'm building up a string and outputting it to a text block. In the second method, I'm declaring some variables. These are numeric variables. I'm doing some math operations, and then I'm up-putting the results. The only purpose of this code is so that I have a place to put breakpoints, so I can show you how to add and remove breakpoints and some of the other tools inside Visual Studio. Let's see what happens when we debug the application. To start this conversation, I'll go to the debug WPF application and choose show all files. Then I'll open this bin folder. And if…

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