MFC Debugging Techniques

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If you are debugging an MFC program, these debugging techniques may be useful.

In This Section

• AfxDebugBreak
  Describes the AfxDebugBreak function, which you can use to hardcode breakpoints in source code.

• The TRACE Macro
  Discusses and provides examples of the ATLTRACE and MFC TRACE macros, which enable you to display messages from your program in the debugger Output window.

• Detecting Memory Leaks in MFC
  Provides links to MFC classes and functions that detect memory that is allocated but never deallocated. Links include: tracking memory allocations, enabling memory diagnostics, taking memory snapshots, viewing memory statistics, and object dumps.

Related Sections

• Reducing the Size of an MFC Debug Build
  Provides solutions to the large amount of disk space used by debug information when you build a Debug version of an MFC application.

• MFC Assertions
  Discusses and provides example code for using the ASSERT macro to check for assertion failures.

• Debugging Visual C++
  Discusses some common debugging problems and techniques for C and C++ applications.

• Debugger Security
  Provides recommendations for more secure debugging.