Debugging

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How-to
How to debug your user controls

Chapters

• Chapter 1: Debugging your Umbraco usercontrols
• Chapter 2: Neat tricks from an Umbraco guru

Debugging your Umbraco usercontrols

If your newly built usercontrol fails to work, you have several options to debug your control:

If you add ?umbDebugShowTrace=true to the URL, you'll be able to see a complete stack trace, showing all parts of the communication between Umbraco and your usercontrol. The actual error(s) is marked with red.

You can also see the elements being passed to a macro by appending
?umbDebug=true to the URL in your browser

(The techniques in this tip was originally described by Niels Hartvig at the old website)