Menu:  Tools -> Options -> Debugging -> General
Versions:  2008,2010
Published:  10/22/2010
Code:  vstipDebug0029

In vstipEnv0015 (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/archive/2010/05/10/multiple-startup-projects-vstipenv0015.aspx) we looked at how to run multiple projects at the same time.  Now we will explore what happens when you go into break mode on the applications.  By default, when you break one application, all the other applications break too.  Let's take a look at an example:

When I set a breakpoint in my first application that has a hit counter on it:

But don't have any breakpoints in my second application:

When I run the applications here is what I get:

Both applications stop when one of them stops.  This behavior is set in Tools -> Options -> Debugging -> General by way of the "Break all processes when one process breaks" option:

If you turn this feature off and run our applications again, this is the (predictable) result: