Kevin Kazmierczak

Debugging code is one of those tasks that we hate because it means that something is wrong in the code . Previous versions of ColdFusion have provided tools to assist us in finding problems with our code, but CFMX7 has introduced some new tools and features that make some of our old debugging techniques easier. The introduction of the new cftimer tag has simplified the use GetTickCount() to track execution time for blocks of code. Other important new debugging features of CFMX7 are the new result attribute of certain tags, especially cfquery, and the ability to use the GetMetaData() function to return detailed information on the executed query. The cftimer tag allows programmers to track execution time of specific sections of code. Previous to this tag, most of us used something similar to the following: