Visual Studio Breakpoint Helper

Breakpoint Helper is now Live

Andy Pennell's WebLog — Sat, 05 Jun 2004 01:11:00 GMT

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Sorin Dolha — Sat, 05 Jun 2004 11:22:00 GMT

Hello,

I just wanted to say that I absolutely love your tool, it's pretty handy in cases when you need to understand why a breakpoint isn't hit, just in case when you run out of clues.

I have tested it and it's bold and clear, I think it would be great to try to integrate it into VS Team System analysis/help tools.

Sorin Dolha [MCAD, MCSD .NET]

Visual Studio Breakpoint Helper

Eric Gunnerson's C# Compendium — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 00:43:00 GMT

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Visual Studio Breakpoint Helper

JimGries — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 23:30:00 GMT

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Joe Moore — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 13:27:00 GMT

Cool tool. Too bad it didn't help me (other than convincing by boss I'm not crazy :-). Here's a scenario to add:

VS.NET 2003, C#
Within my application, I'm using some unsafe code blocks calling a custom C DLL. I have a dialog with an 'OK' button witha DialogResult of 'OK'. The button's Click event calls a function (let's call it 'DoRegFunc') in which I access the registry (Microsoft.Win32.ReigstryKey). Breakpoints work everywhere else except the event and DoRegFunc. If I set an assertion to fail within the DoRegFunc, it fires, but when I press 'Retry' to debug it, VS.NET gives me a dialog saying "no code at this point" and the stack trace is empty. If I turn on debugging of unmanaged code, I get my stack trace back, but I still can't debug the managed code.

Visual Studio Debugger Breakpoint Helper

.Avery Blog — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 04:12:00 GMT

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Tim — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 18:58:10 GMT

Thanks.

My breakpoint problem had me stumped for a couple of hours, finally after dozens of reboots I started web searching and ran into your site. I was back debugging with breakpoints in a couple of minutes.

-Tim

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Jim Donelson — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 19:09:56 GMT

First, thank for the great site.
native, vc8
The dreaded yellow ball!
First turn on "Warn if no symbols on launch".
At least then you will get a dialog telling you.
You can try and rebuild but sometimes
vc8 incorrectly belives that symbols are out of date - the only fix is exit vc8 and restart.

re: Visual Studio Breakpoint Helper

Jim Donelson — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 19:26:16 GMT

So much for that fix, the hollow ywllow ball is back, and now vs doesn't even complain, just the hollow yellow ball the the ! icon on it.
Any ideas?

re: Visual Studio Breakpoint Helper yellow ball redux

Jim Donelson — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 19:41:25 GMT

Ok, more info...
Killed off ALL instances of vs8.
Kill mspdbsrv.exe.
Force rebuild of entire project.
Ok, again (till it comes back:-)).
The hollow yellow ball does mean symbol/source problem, but just cleaning/re-building does nto seem to alway fix it.
- You may or may not get the warning dialog.
- To see the yellow ball, build with an error and then start debugging.

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Red Wraith — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:13:23 GMT

I could fix the following problem I encountered when programming C/C++ in Visual Studio 2005: "The break point will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document."

I did the following: I went to the properties of my project, configuration, c/c++, general, format of debug information (I use a German version of Visual Studio so these categories might not be properly translated) and set it from "deactivated" to something else. Now the breakpoints work fine!

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jerry.gadd — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:02:17 GMT

I have a problem that your helper does not help with.

My icon has a question mark in it, and the tooltip says

"No symbols have been loaded for this document."

I had already tried.

1) Ensure in Debug mode

2) Rebuild

3) Delete obj folder

4) Close and reload project

Finally it worked when i

1) Rebooted

2) Rebuilt

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jyoti — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:08:49 GMT

Whn i put the breakpoint it is a solid red with a question mark in it.Whn i hover the mouse on it a message appears saying this breakpoint will not be hit currently.No executable loaded this point of execution.

Please help

re: Visual Studio Breakpoint Helper

andypennell — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:36:05 GMT

jyoti: please use the Helper, as described at the top of this post.

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johny — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:27:05 GMT

hi, nice tool, but it did not help me with Visual Web Developer 2008. breakpoints work in a new project, but not an existing one.

i checked the solution and project properties, seem to be correct on paths, but may be different than full Visual Studio

thx

re: Visual Studio Breakpoint Helper

andypennell — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:15:15 GMT

johny: Sorry, haven't tried VS2008 myself. Try Jim's blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/jimgries/) he has my old job on VS.

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Bohumil Chalupa — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:58:11 GMT

I use VS 2005 and had been trying to debug a device application. Breakpoins were working when running in device emulator, but not in the real device.

Solution: There has been newer version of .NET 2.0 CF (SP1) in the device then in VS. So updating the .NET CF 2.0 to SP1 on the PC also solves the issue.

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Peter Vroegindewey — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:55:39 GMT

This is great, only I couln't find help for my problem. Once arrived at "The breakpoint will not currently be hit" the site does not offer the possiblility: "The specified module has not been loaded." This is my problem, and I can't seem to get the breakpoints working anymore. I'm using a combination of managed and unmanaged code. (But even in a simple new project (via wizard) the breakpoints don't work.

Any help?

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Margaret — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:08:11 GMT

I couldn't find "Source File Paths" to check which file was being used as recommended. Where is it?

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andypennell — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:38:32 GMT

Margaret: Open Properties on the Solution.

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adnan — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:22:04 GMT

Hey All,

I too have wasted an inordinate amount of time on this one. Fortunately, our organisation has access to Microsoft Partner Support, who gave me this fix. It's a Compact Framework patch (I'm using CF2.0).

As soon as I installed it, my breakpoints started working again!

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Pat Corey — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:00:52 GMT

I have the 2002 and my app stopped breaking during debug. So I had to check the box to debug Asp.net. This fixed my issue. Thanks for the debugger breakpoint helper. It helped me finally find my issue. :)