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title: "The .Net debugging experience - you can help make a difference"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/18/the-net-debugging-experience-you-can-help-make-a-difference.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/18/the-net-debugging-experience-you-can-help-make-a-difference.html"
published: "2004-02-18T22:40:00"
updated: "2004-02-18T22:40:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Now is your chance to tell the dude in charge of the .Net debugger user interface(like how the watch window works) everything that bugs you or is missing about the process of debugging your programs. Think you should be…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# The .Net debugging experience - you can help make a difference

By Roy Osherove February 18, 2004 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations)

**Historical article** · Originally published February 18, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

[Now is your chance](http://blogs.msdn.com/jimgries/archive/2004/02/14/73023.aspx) to tell the dude in charge of the .Net debugger user interface(like how the watch window works) everything that bugs you or is missing about the process of debugging your programs. Think you should be able to convert a breakpoint into a bookmark? Feel like the watch window just isn't delivering what you need? Go ahead. Don't be shy. Arn't blogs great?

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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