Debug Store apps in Visual Studio
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The Visual Studio debugger allows you to control the execution of a program and examine its state. You can use the debugger to find the cause of defects in your Windows Store app and to understand exactly how your app works. When you suspend (break) execution in the debugger, Visual Studio displays the source file that contains the executing code and highlights the executing statement. You can look at the values of variables, the call stack of executing functions, and other aspects of your program state. You can continue executing (step through) the program one statement at a time to see how the statements change the values of the program. In apps written with JavaScript, you can examine and manipulate the DOM of the page.
In this section
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Start a debug session (JavaScript) | How to start a debugging session describes different options for configuring and starting a debugging session for a JavaScript app. |
| Control execution in a debug session (JavaScript) | Debugger navigation takes you through a simple app that demonstrates how to start and stop debugging, how navigate through code, and how to view the program state. |
| Quickstart: Debug HTML and CSS | Debug HTML and CSS shows you how to interactively debug a JavaScript app by using live DOM inspection tools to view and modify HTML and CSS. |
| QuickStart: Debug JavaScript | Debug JavaScript using the console shows you how to interactively debug a JavaScript app using JavaScript Console commands. |
| Start a debug session (VB, C#, C++ and XAML) | How to start a debugging session (Visual C++, Visual C#, and Visual Basic) describes different options for configuring and starting a debugging session for an app that is written with Visual C++, Visual C#, or Visual Basic. |
| Navigate a debug session (Xaml and C#) | Debugger navigation takes you through a simple app that demonstrates how to start and stop debugging, how navigate through code, and how to view and change the program state. |
| Trigger suspend, resume, and background events for Windows Store) | The debugger disables Windows Process Lifetime Management (PLM) events that suspend, resume, and terminate apps. You can trigger these events from the debugger toolbar. Background tasks enable you to perform important operations even when you app has been suspended. The debugger enables you start and debug these background task. |