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Oct 7, 2024
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Accelerate C++ Debugging with Enhanced Conditional Breakpoints

Harshada Hole
Harshada Hole

Are you tired of waiting for your conditional breakpoints to hit in C++? Do you wish there was a way to speed up the debugging process and get to the root of the problem faster? If so, you're in luck! We have some exciting news for you: Visual Studio 2022 has significantly improved the performance of conditional breakpoints in C++ through a rewo...

Debugging and DiagnosticsBreakpoints
Oct 1, 2024
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Visual Studio 2022 – Recent performance enhancements 

Mads Kristensen
Mads Kristensen

Visual Studio 2022 continues to be faster with each version. In this blog post we will highlight a couple of the more significant enhancements you’ll experience in 17.11, such as a more efficient C# language service, faster conditional breakpoints and symbol searches in C++. Reduced CPU usage by C# language service Code Indexing In 17.10 we reva...

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Sep 25, 2024
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Organize Your Breakpoints like a pro

Harshada Hole
Harshada Hole

Do you feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of breakpoints in your Visual Studio project? Wish you could categorize and toggle them on and off with ease? The new breakpoint group feature in Visual Studio 2022 is here to transform your debugging experience. Breakpoint groups allow you to create custom collections of breakpoints and apply vari...

Debugging and DiagnosticsDeveloper ProductivityBreakpoints
Sep 9, 2024
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Supercharge C++ Debugging with AI-Generated breakpoint expressions

Harshada Hole
Harshada Hole

Have you ever spent hours debugging your C++ code, struggling to set up the right conditional breakpoint or tracepoint? Or wished for a smarter way to obtain detailed runtime information without manually crafting complex expressions? You're in luck! With Visual Studio 2022, the latest GitHub Copilot feature now offers AI-generated expressions for b...

Debugging and DiagnosticsBreakpoints
Mar 21, 2023
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Streamlining your Debugging process with Breakpoint Groups

Harshada Hole
Harshada Hole

Have you ever had a situation when you are debugging a complex scenario with a huge list of breakpoints, and you find yourself scrolling and tapping in the breakpoints windows to disable/enable them individually and repetitively? Then the new Breakpoint Groups feature in Visual Studio may be the answer for you. This feature will allow you to cre...

Debugging and DiagnosticsVisual Studio 2022Developer Productivity
Mar 14, 2023
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Visual Studio 2022 v17.6 Preview 2 is now available

Marian Luparu
Marian Luparu

Preview 2 for Visual Studio 17.6 is now available! If you are a game developer, a mobile developer, or are interested in learning new tricks to better debug your code, check out this latest release. It’s as easy as upgrading your Preview channel in the Visual Studio installer. And if you haven’t activated your Preview channel for Visual Studio y...

.NETDebugging and DiagnosticsC++
Feb 12, 2019
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Break When Value Changes: Data Breakpoints for .NET Core in Visual Studio 2019

Leslie Richardson
Leslie Richardson

“Why is this value changing unexpectedly and where or when is this occurring?!” This is a question many of us dread asking ourselves, knowing that we'll have to do some tedious trial-and-error debugging attempting to locate the source of this issue.  For C++ developers, the exclusive solution to this problem has been the data breakpoint, a debuggin...

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