As your ASP applications get more advanced and grow in size, little bugs start
becoming very difficult to catch and fix! It is important to grow your debugging
skills while you grow your coding skills! Here are some tips that will hopefully
aid you in your debugging:
Use Response.Write's like there's no tomorrow! Don't be afraid
to print out the contents of your variables at different times during the execution
of the script. This helps tremendously! Also, think logically. Step
through your code one line at a time, perhaps writing down on a piece of paper
the current states of your variables, for loops, conditionals, etc.
Comment out code that you think might be causing an error. If you just comment
out a line at a time until the error or problem goes away, simple induction tells
you that the error last commented before the error disappeared was the error-causing
line!
Simplify, man! If there is a ton of code, but you know the error or bug is
within a small subsection of the rest of the source, cut the rest of the code out
of the page for the time being just to clear everything up, removing the clutter.
You can paste the non-offending code back in once you have trapped the error.
