Can't trust your tools

[tinyjo]

Sometimes, I really really hate VB.NET. I received a bug report yesterday that some things were becoming enabled when they shouldn't be. This morning, I started to investigate. Unfortunately, I can't, because if I put a breakpoint in the function which is supposed to disable the stuff it suddenly starts working properly and disabling them! Then I take it out and it stops working again. How am I supposed to figure out what's going on?

Comments

[sparkymark.livejournal.com]

Some race condition that stops happening when you only have one thread running at a time? That's how the VMS debugger "fixes" bugs for you anyway.

[soulsong.livejournal.com]

That's my favourite kind of bug.

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Is it specifically when you breakpoint there, or whenever you run via the debugger? Memory initialisation can be an issue with things happening like that (though I don't know how it works in VB.N)

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

Write statements stuffing stuff into files, like we did when I were a lad.