Debugging ASP.NET Book

I	ASP Debugging Basics	1
1	Conceptual Framework	3
	Understanding Server-Side Events	3
	New Language Options	7
	Summary	8
2	Traditional Approaches to Debugging in ASP	9
	Structure of Pre-ASP.NET Pages	9
	Problems and Shortcomings	13
	Old Strategies That Still Do the Job Well	14
	An ASP Debug Object	16
	Summary	22
3	Debugging Strategies	23
	Tier Sandboxes	24
	Divide and Conquer	29
	Simple Before Complex	32
	Turtle Makes the Wiser	36
	Summary	37
4	Code Structure That Eases Debugging	39
	Code Partitioning	39
	Control-of-Flow Guidelines	53
	Structured Exception Handling	58
	Global Exception Handling	59
	Summary	64
II	ASP.NET Debugging Tools	67
5	Conditional Compiling	69
	What Is Conditional Compiling?	69
	Other Preprocessor Directives	76
	Summary	78
6	Tracing	79
	Configuration	80
	Trace Output	81
	Setting Trace Messages	85
	Trace Viewer	91
	Tracing via Components	93
	Tips for Using Trace Information	95
	Summary	96
7	Visual Studio .NET Debugging Environment	97
	Introduction to Features	97
	Attaching to Processes	101
	Setting It All Up	103
	Inline Debugging of ASP.NET Pages	103
	Inline Debugging of Components	111
	Remote Debugging	116
	Summary	117
8	Leveraging the Windows 2000 Event Log	119
	The Windows 2000 Event Log Defined	119
	Web Applications Can Use the Event Log	120
	The System.Diagnostics Event Log Interface	120
	Custom Event Logs	121
	Handling Different Types Of Events	124
	Access Event Log Data via the Web	129
	Summary	136
III	Debugging the New ASP.NET Features	139
9	Debugging Server-Side Controls	141
	Creating the Project	142
	Debugging the Control	151
	Summary	155
10	Debugging Data-Bound Controls	157
	Data-Bound Controls	157
	Debugging Templates	162
	Namespace Issues	164
	XML Binding	168
	Summary	172
11	Debugging User Controls	173
	User Control Basics	174
	Adding Properties and Methods	175
	Dynamic User Controls	184
	Summary	187
12	Caching Issues and Debugging	189
	Output Caching	190
	The Caching API	196
	Summary	200
IV	Debugging Related Technologies	201
13	Debugging Web Services	203
	Web Services Stumbling Blocks	203
	Error Messages	205
	Problems Working with XMLSerializer	214
	Working with Errors in SOAP	215
	Error Returning Certain Types of Data	219
	Working with Streams	220
	Tools	225
	Basic Web Services Debugging	226
	Problems Deploying Your Web Service?	230
	Summary	230
14	Debugging .NET Components and HttpHandlers	231
	The Component	231
	Interfaces	242
	HttpHandlers	243
	State-Management Issues	246
	.NET Components Versus Registered COM Components	249
	Summary	252
15	COM+ Issues	253
	Role-Based Security	253
	Transaction Issues	264
	Summary	272
16	Debugging ADO.NET	273
	Understanding the System.Data Namespace	275
	Catching SQL Errors	275
	New Connection Components	280
	Issues with the DataReader Class	281
	Working with Transactions	281
	Error Codes and How to Debug Them	284
	Common Pitfalls	295
	SQL ADO.NET Objects Versus OleDb ADO.NET Objects	300
	Summary	301
V	Appendix	303
A	Issues That Arise When Migrating from ASP to ASP.NET	305
	Moving from ASP to ASP.NET	305
	Moving from VBScript to Visual Basic	311
	Opting for C#	318
	Summary	323
	Index	325