Enhanced debugging with DebuggerDisplay in C#

We all need to debug our projects and for that we need to some visualization to see values of debug data C# has a attribute called ‘DebuggerDisplay’ which helps developers to visualize data in the way developer wants .

As per MSDN, DebuggerDisplay attributes allows developers of the type, who specifies and best understands the runtime behaviour of that type, to also specify what that type will look like when it is display in debugger.

How to use DebuggerDisplay attribute:

Display attribute constructor has one argument, a string will displayed in the value column for instances of type. This string will contain {} braces and this text between {} will evaluate as expression. So what we are waiting for lets try it in Visual Studio. I have written following code for that.

using System.Diagnostics;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var employee =new Employee();
        }
    }

    public class Employee
    {

        [DebuggerDisplay("Id={EmployeeId}")]
        public int EmployeeId = 1;

        [DebuggerDisplay("Name={Name}")]
        public string Name = "Jalpesh Vadgama";
    }
}

Here you can see I have created a class called “Employee” with two variable with DebuggerDisplay Attribute and from main method I have created a object of employee class. Now let’s create debug the code via pressing F5 and see how its works.



As you can see its display data as defined in argument. So now you can format your debugger visualizer screen as per your requirement. That’s it. Hope you like it. Stay tuned for more.

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Internet Explorer 11 developer toolbar features

Recently Microsoft has launched new developer tool bar with Internet Explorer 11 with some cool features. In this post we are going to learn about the new features of Internet Explorer Developer toolbar. Microsoft has rewritten whole toolbar and now it loaded with bunch of features.

DOM Explorer:

When you launch Internet Explorer Developer toolbar with F12 by default it will load DOM Explorer and this will have all html and style sheet. You can select any element and modify or change style sheet of live site.



You modify the existing HTML on left side of pane and you add/modify the style sheet of selected element on the right side of the pane. There is also find functionality given to find any specific element.

It also provides intellisense for modifying and changing HTML and style sheet.

Console tool:

Second one on left side is console tool where you can have whole history running JavaScript with console.log statement



Here it will show whole errors and exception related to client side code executed for this page.

Debugger tool:

This tool is used for the debugging the your client side code when application running and you can easily debug your code with the help of this tool.

Here you can set your breakpoints just like in your IDE and easily debug loop or any client code.You can also debug the compressed JavaScript here. It’s a great way to debug and find errors.

Network tool:

Network tool is used for the performance measurement for a web page. It will give you a details of any request network involved in your web page loading. It will tell request completion time in mili seconds. Here you can also find amount data and bandwidth being transferred when your web page loads.

The UI Responsiveness tool:

Next is UI responsiveness tool where you can find if your web page is running slow then what happened which part is consumed more CPU .It will help you identify different source CPU utilization which causes your web page to load slowly in browser.


With help of this tool you can optimize your web pages performance via changing part/code which causes more CPU Utilization.

Profiler tool:

Profiler tool is used for measuring JavaScript performance. It will show you number of function called during profiling session. From here you can isolate JavaScript which makes your web page slow.

Memory tool:

With the help of this Memory tool you can easily find the memory leak issues of your web page. The memory tool track memory usage of web page and help you identify where more memory is consumed and where memory leak is happening.



Here is also allows you to take heap snapshot at regular interval and then can analyse via clicking on it.



With the help of this you can easily identify memory leaks in your code.

Emulation tool:

The emulation tools help you testing your web page on different screen size and hardware's. You can easily emulate different screen size and emulations.



That’s it. All this awesome features which is provided by developer tool for internet explorer 11. It will definitely going to make your life very easy. Highly recommend this.

Stay tuned for more.. 

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CodeMaid extension for visual studio

Till now I'm a resharper fan boy and I still love using it. It is a great productivity tool. But it is not free for commercial use. So lots of my friends tell me that they want something open source or free which provide some kind of productivity over normal visual studio things and recently I came across CodeMaid extension of visual studio. It is a great plugin. It's not replacement of resharper but it will surely increase your productivity and make your code clean.

What is CodeMaid?

CodeMaid is an open source Visual Studio extension to cleanup, dig through and simplify our C#, C++, F#, VB, XAML, XML, ASP, HTML, CSS, LESS, JavaScript and TypeScript coding.

You can download that from following link.

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/76293c4d-8c16-4f4a-aee6-21f83a571496.

It also got  a separate site for that from where you can see and learn all the features. Following is a link for that.

http://www.codemaid.net/

 Here you can find latest news, feature list and documentation for code maid.

Installing CodeMaid

Installing CodeMaid is really easy download .vsix file from the above link and then double click on that. It will automatically start installing it.. It will ask for list of Visual Studio available like following.



Once you click on install it will install CodeMaid plugin in Visual Studio.

Features of CodeMaid Extension of Visual Studio:

There are lots of features available with CodeMaid Extension of Visual Studio.

Code Cleaning:

This feature will automatically run on save. It will do following things.

1. Removed unused using statement and sort them
2. Add unspecified access modifier.
3. Add Blank line padding.
4. Remove blank lines adjacent to braces.
5. Run Visual Studio formatting
6. Remove Constructive blank lines.
7. Remove End of Line white spaces.
8. Update region tags.

You find more about this at -http://www.codemaid.net/documentation/#cleaning

Code Digging:

Once you install CodeMaid it will add a CodeMaid spade where you can navigate and digg code. Here you can alphabetically sort everything drag and drop members etc.



There are tons of features available like Joining, Formatting, Collapsing, Configuring, Switching etc. You can find that for the following feature documentation list.

http://www.codemaid.net/documentation/

I have used it for few days and highly recommend it it saves lot of time. Hope you like it. Stay tuned for more.

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