MFC Debugging Techniques

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If you are debugging an MFC program, these debugging techniques may be useful.

In This Section

  • AfxDebugBreak
    Describes the AfxDebugBreak function, which you can use to hardcode breakpoints in source code.

  • The TRACE Macro
    Discusses and provides examples of the ATLTRACE and MFC TRACE macros, which enable you to display messages from your program in the debugger Output window.

  • Detecting Memory Leaks in MFC
    Provides links to MFC classes and functions that detect memory that is allocated but never deallocated. Links include: tracking memory allocations, enabling memory diagnostics, taking memory snapshots, viewing memory statistics, and object dumps.

  • Reducing the Size of an MFC Debug Build
    Provides solutions to the large amount of disk space used by debug information when you build a Debug version of an MFC application.

  • MFC Assertions
    Discusses and provides example code for using the ASSERT macro to check for assertion failures.

  • Debugging Visual C++
    Discusses some common debugging problems and techniques for C and C++ applications.

  • Debugger Security
    Provides recommendations for more secure debugging.