Improving speed while running under the debugger
If stepping in the debugger is taking too long, here are a few suggestions on improving your experience:
- Close any Windows that you don't need. The modules Window and disassembly Window are good candidates if you have them open.
- If you are 'mixed' debugging (Native and .NET code at the same time), try switching to Native or .NET. Mixed is much slower then either option by itself.
- If your code causes a lot of debugger events, this will slow it down whenever it is run under the debugger. Here are the common debugger events:
- Loads/unloads of dlls or assemblies
- Create/destroy app domains
- Create/destroy threads
- Throw/catch exceptions
- Make sure the watch windows aren't evaluating some expensive function
