Visual Studio Hacks - Ask The Pros: Debugging

In this article from Visual Studio Hacks site, several hotshots in the industry discuss their tricks for debugging in Visual Studio .NET I myself had wanted to write something about the art of debugging, the tools, etc for quite a long time. But I guess the lack of spare-time and also my inadequate level of skills hindered me to do so. Many of us young programmers ignored the importance of debugging in our life. In you lifespan as a programmer, how much time do you spend on tracking errors and bugs? A lot? Maybe more than the time you spent on typing codes isn't it? Yeah sure, you can always do a "printf" (or "echo" if you dig PHP). If that's the only way you know to investigate the content in your variables, then you've missed quite a lot I tell you. Some tools that I can't live without are like the breakpoint, step-over, step-into, watch, a bunch more. If you're using a modern IDE, for any language/platform, much probably you already got these features. So master your weaponry. But if you don't already have debugging tools, find one, add it to your arsenal. Having the correct debugging tools and the skills to use it can save a hell lot of time, and make your programming task less painful.