Debugging and testing with Visual Studio

Visual Studio includes a set of testing and debugging tools that can help you ensure that your Windows Store app is of the highest quality.

In this section

Running Windows Store apps from Visual Studio

Running Windows Store apps from Visual Studio shows you how to run your app on a local machine, in the Windows Store app simulator, or on a remote device.

Debugging Windows Store apps

Debugging Windows Store apps introduces the Visual Studio debugger that can help you find and fix bugs in your code.

Analyzing the code quality of Windows Store apps with Visual Studio code analysis

Analyzing the code quality of Windows Store apps with Visual Studio code analysis shows you how to find some common problems that are difficult to detect in debugging and testing.

Creating and running unit tests on a Windows Store app

Creating and running unit tests on a Windows Store app

Analyzing the performance of Windows Store apps

Profiling the performance of a Windows Store apps

Analyzing memory usage in Windows Store apps (JavaScript)

Analyzing memory usage and finding memory leaks in Windows Store apps.

For more information about debugging, see Debugging in Visual Studio in the MSDN Library.