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• How do I examine a caught exception without breaking in the debugger?

  There are .NET Framework classes that will give you the call stack information at a particular point. Call this method inside the catch block. using System; using System.Diagnostics; using System.Reflection; using System.Text; public static void TraceCaughtException...

• How do I configure the Visual Studio debugger to break when an exception is thrown?

  In Visual Studio go to the Debug | Exceptions | Common Language Runtime Exceptions | System and select System.NullReferenceException . In the When the exception is thrown group box, select Break into the debugger . Run your scenario. When the exception...

• How do I view debug or trace statements when debugging an application in Visual Studio?

  When your application is launched from Visual Studio in Debug mode, you will see all trace and debug messages in the Output window. Contributed from George Shepherd's Windows Forms FAQ

• How do I debug paint and focus problems since Visual Studio always gets in the way?

  Using dual monitors is one way to tackle this problem. If you happen to be running on a terminal server machine there's an even better way to do this. Create a terminal server session to your own machine and start the exe in the terminal server window...

• How do I debug a designer for a control in Visual Studio?

  You need to use a second instance of Visual Studio to debug the one that's running the code. Put your control on a form. Start a second instance of Visual Studio and choose the Debug | Processes menu item. Double-click devenv.exe and choose Common...

• How do I direct debug output to a text file?

  You need to add a Trace Listener to your code. Below is sample code that adds a TextWriterTraceListener (and don't forget the Flush before you terminate). For more information on tracing in general, see Tracing Code in an Application in the Visual...

• Why do I receive duplicate trace messages for my trace statements?

  This is possible if the same listener was added more than once to the Listeners list in Trace. This is possible even if an assembly that you linked to makes an additional entry for the same listener. Perform a check like this before adding a listener...

• How do I write information to the output window in a debug build, similar to VC6's TRACE macro?

  You can use the Console.Write and Console.WriteLine methods from within a Windows Forms project to do this. The class DefaultTraceListener is used to implement this functionality. When your application is launched from Visual Studio in Debug mode, you...

• How do I get a full call stack when debugging in Visual Studio .NET 2003?

  In VS2003, debug info for unmanaged code is turned off by default. This is why you will not see the call stack including code in the System DLLs. To enable debugging for unmanaged code go to your project properties dialog and turn on as shown here: Contributed...