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Data Breakpoints

This blog post is part of a series on breakpoints in the Visual Studio debugger and has been updated to reflect the experience of using Visual Studio 2015. If you are interested in details about setting data breakpoints using earlier versions of Visual Studio please see the MSDN Documentation. Data breakpoints are a powerful feature that is ...

Conditional Breakpoints

This blog post is part of a series on breakpoints in the Visual Studio debugger and has been updated to reflect the experience of using Visual Studio 2015. If you are interested in details about setting conditional breakpoints using earlier versions of Visual Studio please see the MSDN documentation. In earlier posts, we showed hit count ...

Filter Breakpoints

This blog post is part of a series on breakpoints in the Visual Studio debugger and has been updated to reflect the experience of using Visual Studio 2015. If you are interested in details about setting conditional breakpoints using earlier versions of Visual Studio please see the MSDN documentation.  The code used in the examples below is ...

Function Breakpoints

This blog post is part of a series on breakpoints in the Visual Studio debugger and has been updated to reflect the experience in Visual Studio 2015.  In this post, we will show the function breakpoints feature of Visual Studio and how this feature can be used to save you time while debugging. Dealing with Overloads Let’s say that you ...

Hit Count Breakpoints

This blog post is part of a series on breakpoints in the Visual Studio debugger and has been updated to reflect the experience of using Visual Studio 2015. If you are interested in details about setting hit count breakpoints using earlier versions of Visual Studio please see the MSDN documentation. As mentioned in an earlier post, we will be ...

Breakpoints in Visual Studio 2013

  You are likely familiar with the basic breakpoints functionality in Visual Studio.  You click in the editor gutter/margin to create a red circle next to a line of code, and then your app stops at that location when any thread in your code reaches that location, so that you can inspect state using the debugger windows. What you ...