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C# Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   C# Programming Cookbook Quick fixes to your common C# programming problems, with a focus on C# 6.0

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467300
Length 476 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dirk Strauss Dirk Strauss
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. New Features in C# 6.0 FREE CHAPTER 2. Classes and Generics 3. Object-Oriented Programming in C# 4. Composing Event-Based Programs Using Reactive Extensions 5. Create Microservices on Azure Service Fabric 6. Making Apps Responsive with Asynchronous Programming 7. High Performance Programming Using Parallel and Multithreading in C# 8. Code Contracts 9. Regular Expressions 10. Choosing and Using a Source Control Strategy 11. Creating a Mobile Application in Visual Studio 12. Writing Secure Code and Debugging in Visual Studio 13. Creating a Web Application in Azure Index

Setting conditional breakpoints

Conditional breakpoints are another hidden gem when it comes to debugging. These allow you to specify one or several conditions. When one of these conditions are met, the code will stop at the breakpoint. Using conditional breakpoints is really easy.

Getting ready

There is nothing you specifically need to prepare to use this recipe.

How to do it…

  1. Add the following code to your Program.cs file. We are simply creating a list of integers and looping through that list:
    List<int> myList = new List<int>() { 1, 4, 6, 9, 11 };
    foreach(int num in myList)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(num);
    }
    Console.ReadLine();
  2. Next, place a breakpoint on the Console.WriteLine(num) line of code inside the loop:
    How to do it…
  3. Right-click on the breakpoint and select Conditions… from the context menu:
    How to do it…
  4. You will now see that Visual Studio opens a Breakpoint Settings window. Here we specify that the breakpoint needs to be hit only when the value of num is 9. You can add several conditions...
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