Debugging in Visual Studio

There are several fundamental areas of debugging WinUI applications that we will be covering in this section. Some of these techniques are applicable to debugging other types of .NET applications, whereas others are specific to XAML and WinUI development. Throughout the book, we’ve run our projects with Visual Studio, which is an example of a local debugging session. We will explore other ways to debug local applications as well as remote applications.

Simple mistakes in XAML markup are not always apparent when we’re writing it, and this kind of problem is not detected by the compiler. In this section, we will see how to detect and avoid XAML markup issues and how to adhere to best practices.

Let’s get started by taking a closer look at debugging local applications.

Debugging local applications

Open the Ch11-MyMediaCollection project from GitHub and compile it to make sure you have downloaded all the referenced NuGet packages...