T is for… Tracepoint

re: T is for… Tracepoint

Jim O'Neil — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:55:18 GMT

I noticed the EnvDTE90a.Breakpoint3 interface has what you need. I hacked this together and it seems to work (it doesn't look like a tracepoint - with the diamond - until you run the debugger)

Public Module Module1

Public Sub addTracepoint()

DTE.Debugger.Breakpoints.Add(Function:="Main", Line:=1)

Dim bp As EnvDTE90a.Breakpoint3

bp = DTE.Debugger.Breakpoints.Item(1)

bp.Macro = "Macros.MyMacros.Module1.foo"

bp.BreakWhenHit = False

End Sub

Public Sub foo()

MsgBox("Got here!")

End Sub

End Module

re: T is for… Tracepoint

Daniel D Lindmark — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:51:43 GMT

How do you add a tracepoint programatically?

I can add a breakpoint programmatically, but I want to add a breakpoint that triggers a macro.

re: T is for… Tracepoint

Jim O'Neil — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:33:07 GMT

I don't think there's anything built in. There's an option to redirect output window to immediate window, which doesn't help here, but I'm thinking that if they did that surely they would have considered writing to a file too and yet there is no similar option. I suspect this might be doable via Visual Studio extensibility, and I've asked a few folks to find out if something like this might already be floating out there.

re: T is for… Tracepoint

ddas-edEn — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:29:11 GMT

Thanks for the article. I have successfully implemented the way you have descibled using the "When Breakpoint is Hit" dialog.

Now, I want to redirect the output to a text file instead of the Output window. Can you please provide some tips how to go about it?

re: T is for… Tracepoint

Jim O'Neil — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:56:19 GMT

Thank you for the positive feedback! There are definitely a number of cool things buried in the debugger. You might want to check out my colleague's Channel 9 videos that cover the same materials I used on our Roadshow. He's got three up there now, but I think there are more coming: http://channel9.msdn.com/Search/?Term=Brian Hitney

re: T is for… Tracepoint

Robert — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:28:30 GMT

Thanks so much for this! Seriously, i hate that there are so many undiscovered (to me) trivial features to VS that could of helped save me countless hours of work. This being one of them for sure.