Summary

Microsoft has built many cool new features into the .NET framework to help developers. In this chapter, you learned how using components can help in cleaning up your garbage when you are finished with a component. You also learned how the stack trace classes can help you determine where a bug could be coming from, no matter addressed the additional features for state management in .NET and showed how how deep in the code it might be buried. Two more important sections in this chapter managed components are self-describing, which saves developers from having to register them in the registry.

We covered a lot of ground in this chapter, and it is up to you to take it to the next level. Use some of these examples to get a jump-start on debugging your components. Remember, the majority of component issues revolve around containment and cleanup; just keep this in mind when you are developing your component.