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More advanced features of the most recent versions of this debugger include:

* Full symbol and source integration.

* '''Edit and continue''' support, enabling source code to be modified and recompiled on-the-fly without having to exit the current running program or restart the debugger ([[32 -bit]] applications only).

* Remote machine debugging.

* Attaching and detaching to and from processes (both on the current machine and a remote machine).

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The Visual Studio Debugger also has no ability to debug [[Lambda-expression#Lambda_calculus_and_programming_languages|Lambda-Expressions]] or [[Language Integrated Query|LINQ]]. This is because it would take too much work for Microsoft to implement.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jaredpar/archive/2009/08/26/why-no-linq-in-debugger-windows.aspx |title=Why is LINQ absent from debugger windows? |website=jaredpar's WebLog |publisher=[[Microsoft]] |language=en-US |access-date=2018-04-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jaredpar/archive/2010/06/02/why-is-linq-absent-from-debugger-windows-part-2.aspx |title=Why is LINQ absent from debugger windows (Part 2)? |website=jaredpar's WebLog |publisher=[[Microsoft]] |language=en-US |access-date=2018-04-24}}</ref><ref>http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/472999/ability-to-evaluate-lambda-expressions-in-immediate-window</ref> However, most developers working with Lambda expressions are able to visualize the data through the several memory windows or by storing the result into a variable.

Edit-and-continue is held by many developers {{by whom|date=May 2016}} as Microsoft's greatest asset given to developers. A program that is running in memory, that encounters a simple mistake, can be corrected without having to stop the current program or exit the debugger. This feature allows very common mistakes to be corrected easily and with great time savings over other solutions which require exiting the program, making the change, recompiling, and then navigating back through the running program to the previous ___location.

== See also ==

* [[Program database]] (PDB)

== References ==

{{reflist}}

== External links ==

*[https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd264915.aspx/ IntelliTrace] MSDN , Visual Studio 2015

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