Debugger documentation - Visual Studio (Windows)

The Visual Studio debugger helps you observe the run-time behavior of your program and find problems.

Get started

Tutorial

• Learn to debug C#
• Learn to debug C++
• Learn to debug Visual Basic
• Try AI-assisted debugging
• Run Python code in the debugger >>
• Debugging for absolute beginners

Fundamentals

Overview

• First look at the debugger
• What is debugging?
• Debugger feature finder

How-To Guide

• Code stepping
• Set a breakpoint
• Edit code and continue debugging
• Call stack

Go deeper with the debugger

How-To Guide

• Debugger tips and tricks
• Write and debug running XAML code
• Debug a live Azure app
• Tell the debugger what to show
• Debug performance issues >>

Inspect data

How-To Guide

• Inspect variables
• Set a watch on variables

Measure performance

Tutorial

• Get started analyzing CPU usage
• Get started measuring memory usage
• AI-assisted CPU usage auto insights with Copilot

Overview

• First look at profiling tools
• Which tool should I use?
• Ways to run profiling tools

Concept

• Understanding performance collection methods

Collaborate

Tutorial

• Write and debug code with Live Share >>