.NET debugging made easier

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Chris — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:17:07 GMT

I am a big fan of this attribute. If you want to stop at a breakpoint set in a method decorated with this attribute there is an option. In visual studio 2008 (I believe it is in the same place in 2005) under Tools | Options | Debugger | General uncheck "Enable Just My Code (Managed Only)" and your breakpoint will still trip. If you attempt to step into the same method without the breakpoint you will still glide over.

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Mike Read — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:08:57 GMT

Thanks very much, this will speed up debugging considerably

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Lito — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:23:03 GMT

I read about this moons ago. Then when I got fed up with the debugger stepping over all the properties I I thought I should give it a try. Alas, I could not remember it. I asked about but did not really get the answer I was looking for. Thanks for bringing it up.

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ghill77 — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:03:17 GMT

I don't really like the fact that you have to flag each property that you want to skip. There should be some other directive to just skip all property accessors.

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Rory — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:28:10 GMT

This might be new to 2008 or even sp1 (I dont remember seeing it in 2005) but the context menu for the code window now has two items during a debug session that can help with just this sort of thing. The first is a "Step Into Specific" submenu that shows each of the method calls made by the current line. The other is a checkable "Step over properties and operators" option that does just as the name suggests (VS prints a message in the output window if you step over a property with it enabled). I'd try using them before the attribute, simply because you don't have to modify the code just for debugging (or remember to remove it when you're done).

Hope it helps

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Schneider — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:59:06 GMT

I have also removed these attributes to aid debugging. (The designers add these by default)

Schneider

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Rory — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:16:57 GMT

I just remembered that the c# preprocessor directives "#line hidden" and "#line default" can be used to produce the same effect as this attribute, the debugger will treat any code between the two directives as if it doesn't exist. Again, I wouldn't do this without a really good reason, but it can be useful when creating a code generator that needs to hide some mess from the developer at debug time.

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Aaron — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:37:29 GMT

Should it not be called DebuggerStepOver though? It is technically not stepping through that code.

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ihath — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:40:57 GMT

thanks for sharing. That is so useful

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Jamal Mavadat — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:49:49 GMT

this attribute is basically ideal for custom debugger helper methods such as custom assertion methods, exception handling methods, etc. etc. etc. as well as source code generation for which you don't want get the hell confused out of consumer developer...

anyway, by VS2008 you've also got the <b>Debugger\Step over properties and operators (Managed only)</b> option which I personally most of the time make it disabled :D

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Ashley Dickson — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:28:35 GMT

NetBeans can step over and into within a line, very nice.

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The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend

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dan — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:14:56 GMT

More like DebuggerStepOverAttribute than step through.

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Computer Videos — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:16:00 GMT

Hey this is really good stuff. Actually been waiting for such thing.

Keep sharing these and help people in the community.

Thanks!