Debugging a MobileFirst Sliverlight and Windows 8.1 Universal Apps

In this blog I will share a few ways of debugging or troubleshooting an MobileFirst Windows Silverlight and Windows 8.1 Universal apps (Desktops, tables and phones). I will be debugging JavaScript code, managed code (C#), native code (C/C++) and combination of these.

Basically we will cover

Console log outputs
Break point support
remote debugging using remote debuggers like VORLON or WINRE.

You can see the below screen shots and videos for the flow and debugging techniques used. Along with the videos there are samples attached for you to try.

Debugging a Silverlight App

The High level flow shows the launching of the app from Visual Studio on to device or emulator and logs output to the Visual studio console and vorlon console and also the markup exchange between Vorlon and the device. Here the debugging involves the html, JavaScript and C# (managed code).

High level flow	Visual Studio flow

Video:

Download Silverlight Sample Source

Debugging a Windows Phone 8.1 App

In here the debugging with Vorlon is not included since its already covered as part Siliverlight App debugging and here I have tried covering the debugging of the native (C/C++) code for universal apps.

High level flow	Visual Studio flow

Video:

Download Windows Universal Sample Source

You read more at the articles below.
(1) Six ways to debug a hybrid Worklight application
(2) Windows Phone 8 IE10 Javascript debugging

Last modified on May 01, 2016