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Switching to Managed Compatibility Mode in Visual Studio 2013

October 16, 2013 Oct 16, 2013 10/16/13

Andrew Chan - MSFT

In Visual Studio 2012, we introduced a new managed debug engine that provides us the ability to more rapidly add new features compared to the older implementation. This can be seen by the number of features introduced in Visual Studio 2013 after only a single year including Managed Return Values, .NET 64-bit Edit and Continue, Async Callstacks...

Data Breakpoints

October 14, 2013 Oct 14, 2013 10/14/13

Brad Sullivan

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

October 11, 2013 Oct 11, 2013 10/11/13

Brad Sullivan

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

October 9, 2013 Oct 9, 2013 10/9/13

Brad Sullivan

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

October 8, 2013 Oct 8, 2013 10/8/13

Brad Sullivan

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

October 7, 2013 Oct 7, 2013 10/7/13

Brad Sullivan

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

October 7, 2013 Oct 7, 2013 10/7/13

Brad Sullivan

  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 ...

Modules Window Search support in VS2013

September 20, 2013 Sep 20, 2013 09/20/13

Brad Sullivan

This post is about a small featurette we added to one of the debugger windows – not a huge item, but sometimes for some people it is the little things that please them and so we decided that it was worth blogging about this feature. When you are debugging a large application, using the Modules window can be difficult because ...