From the course: Debugging in C#

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What is a breakpoint?

What is a breakpoint?

From the course: Debugging in C#

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What is a breakpoint?

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- [Speaker] A breakpoint is an intentional stopping point or pause put into a program for debugging purposes. A breakpoint allows us to temporarily halt a program in execution in order to inspect the internal state of the application at that point. Jumping back into Visual Studio Code we can add a breakpoint to our program. To add a breakpoint we just hover to the left of the line number and click. This adds a breakpoint to this specific line and the program will stop its execution before executing this line. Let's add breakpoints to a few areas we think might be problematic or really determine the output of this program. So here, line eight, this operation is key to tripling a number. So let's go ahead and add a breakpoint to the line after it. So line eight will execute and then the program will stop its execution. We can also add a breakpoint to 15, here. So right before we print things out to the consol we'll go ahead and stop the program and make sure everything looks good. Now…

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