Building, debugging, and testing are key activities in developing and finishing robust applications, components, and services. The tools provided with Visual Studio 2005 are designed to allow you to control build configurations, identify and resolve errors efficiently, and test your builds in a variety of ways. The following topics cover not only use of the tools but offer recommendations and guidelines as well.
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- Building in Visual Studio
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Configure debug, release, and special builds of your Visual Studio 2005 solution for targeted groups of internal and external users.
- Debugging in Visual Studio
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Run the Visual Studio Debugger to resolve logic and semantic errors, and learn techniques specific to the technologies and languages chosen to implement your solution.
- Object Test Bench
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Complete your development effort by testing the scalability, performance, and quality of candidate builds for the release version of your solution.
- Debug Interface Access SDK
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Provides access to debug information stored in program database (.pdb) files generated by Microsoft postcompiler tools.
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