In this post, I am going to show you the two important windows of Visual Studio which are useful when you are debugging the project and to get the result on the fly during debug.

Call Stack Window

Most developers get confused when they are debugging application "From which function call came from up to my debug point", this happens when they are working the code design by someone else or debugging code of the DLL.

Following is one common scenario which I notice that is done a number of times by developers.

In the three tier application, developers always put the break point in presentation layer when the break point gets hit, they always check the data and they wonder which business layer method is called >> database layer method gets called by presentation layer to get this data.

The Solution is Call Stack Window which is part of the Visual Studio. Shortcut for it is Ctrl + Alt + C or go to menu Debug >> Windows >> Call Stack

As you can see the image with the help of the Call Stack Window, you will get information about the method that gets called, what is parameter value, line number of the method in file, is it external call or internal, programming language in which method is written.

Immediate Window

It always happens that in the middle of debugging, you want to execute some set of statements or some set of functions or want to check the value of the variable. But as a beginner, you don't know how to do it at the time of debugging.

You can open up the Immediate window by shortcut Ctrl + Alt + I or go to menu Debug >> Windows >> Immediate Window.

Immediate window has intelligence support as we have in the Coding window of the Visual Studio so that you can easily make use of the function, which makes your task easy.

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