Debugging threads and processes

In this section, we are going to debug BackgroundPingConsoleApp from Chapter 1. You can use your completed project from Chapter 1 or get the project from this chapter’s GitHub repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Parallel-Programming-and-Concurrency-with-C-sharp-10-and-.NET-6/tree/main/chapter10. We will debug the application and discover some of the features of the Debug Location toolbar and the Threads window as we go.

Debugging a project with multiple threads

The project we’ll be working this is a simple one that creates one background thread to check whether the network is available.

Note

The examples in this chapter will be run in the Debug configuration in Visual Studio. When you compile and run a .NET project, you can choose to run a Debug or Release build. While debugging, you will want to select Debug mode so that the project compiles w the symbolic debug information. This is not included in a Release build...