Tip: Glimpse and web application debugging

Knowing what's happening inside your ASP.NET web applications is important in building well-performing applications. The ASP.NET core features (lie trace) together with Visual Studio's tools allow you to monitor the performance, but then again, good tools always become handy.

If you are into free solutions, then take a look at Glimpse. This is a rather new NuGet package for ASP.NET web development (MVC or otherwise) that helps you profile and monitor your web application's inner workings. A new version 1.6 (and version 1.3.3 for MVC 4) has been recently released.

What then, can you do with Glimpse? Firstly, it's a browser-based solution, and lets you peek (and poke) your web application's settings, server configuration, model binding, routing (those pretty URLs), and more. And it works with production applications as well, safely.

Sounds very good indeed. Check it out at www.getglimpse.com.