> Google searches for the last 15 minutes comes up with pages
> which happily sing in harmony and joy, claiming edit &
> continue is back with vs.net 2005. Being a complete dumb, I
> could not figure out the way it works for asp.net.
> In vs.net 2005 I have set a breakpoint in a web project, and
> changed to code in the method (a button click handler
> actually) . The result was a dialog telling me the code that
> is being debugged has changed.
as far as I know, E&C isn't available in asp.net scenario's, only in
non-ASP.NET related projects, this because it's too
cumbersome to restart the webprocess with the same state as it depends on IIS.
> What I'd like to have is the mechanism I have in Eclipse and
> Java (this is certainly not a flame war invitation, please
> stay calm.): I get into a method, see that I have written
> something stupid, but I have just spend my precious time to
> fill in the fields in the UI, and in case i want to change
> the method, I have to stop debugging, change code, compile,
> start app, perform all user functionality till I get to the
> point I was before (think about a wizard with bulky pages)
> etc etc. In Eclipse, I just change the method, press save,
> and the debugger goes back to the beginning of the stack,
> with my precious input still ready.
> This is a huge time saver for me in development, and I'd love
> to use it in vs.net 2005.
> Any ideas?
Well, one idea could be to drop E&C requiring coding styles. It's that
simple. E&C propagates sloppy coding 'because you can
fix it during debugging anyway', forgetting that debugging is costly and time
consuming and should be avoided until the only way to
determine what causes a bug is to start the debugger, carefully placing
breakpoints etc.
I never need E&C and still am productive in writing software. It's not
that I do something special, it's just that most of
the time, thinking for 1 minute saves you more than 5 minutes of debugging. For
kicks, read my article why E&C isn't solving
anything and how to debug software properly:
http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archive/2003/08/01/22211.aspx
FB
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