Windows Phone编程Visual Studio

Question

I am programming some applications for the Windows Phone and am looking for some standard debugging practices that I cannot figure out how to do in a Windows Phone project in Visual Studio.

1. How can I print statements to the command line just for debugging purposes in a windows phone project?
2. Can I use MessageBox.show() (it seems that I cannot import System.Windows.Forms)

All help is appreciated!

Answer 1

you can use Debbugger.Log which will output to debug window

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-in/library/system.diagnostics.debugger.log(v=vs.95).aspx

Answer 2

Indeed, you cannot import System.Windows.Forms from a Windows Phone project. In the case of WP7 you will program using a subset of Silverlight. With that in mind, there is a Message Box control in Silverlight for WP7 using the System.Windows namespace: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.messagebox(VS.95).aspx

I suggest that you approach your debugging needs by leveraging unit tests instead of printing to the Message Box.

Answer 3

For advanced tracing and logging you may want to take a look on

Silverlight and WP7 Exception Handling and Logging building block

NLog for Windows Phone

Answer 4

1. You can simply use Debug.WriteLine(Something); just like Console.WriteLine(Something); . The Something will automatically be converted to string. This is as simple as it can get.
2. As indicated, you can indeed use MessageBox control. It's present in System.Windows namespace. You can also use some third party toolkit like Coding4Fun if you need customized messagebox.