Did you know… You can use Breakpoint Filters to break the right process - #273

re: Did you know… You can use Breakpoint Filters to break the right process - #273

Skip Valentine — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:59:03 GMT

While you're on Breakpoints, there's one debugger feature that I've missed from the old VB6 days that I never have had success in finding in the .Net debugger world. It has to do with Conditional breakpoints.

Apparently, in the .Net debugger you can setup a conditional breakpoint at a particular line of code, if the condition is true when that line of code is executed, the debugger will break at that line of code and let you walk thru it - (may be somewhat useful, I guess, but I've yet to have a need for it).

In the VB6 debugger, you could setup a conditional breakpoint that would cause the debugger to break when the condition became true, (not at some predetermined line of code, but as soon as the condition became true).

So, if you knew that somewhere in your vast amount of source, the soldQuantity integer variable was incorrectly getting set to say "-5", you could setup a conditional breakpoint of something like "soldQuantity == -5", and as soon as the soldQuantity was set to -5, the debugger would break execution and take you to the line of code that had just made the condition true (an EXTREMELY useful feature - when squashin' bugs).

So, my question is: Is there some ambiguous (or better yet, "wow! I never noticed that before! - (my bad)") way to setup the conditional breakpoint to break at the moment the condition becomes true? Or, is it as I suspect, and that subtle little feature of the "conditional breakpoint" just never made it's way over to the .Net IDE's debugger?

Thanks,

Skip V.

ps. I love your "Did you know..."'s, I'm almost ashamed to say, but the majority of them result in a "well no, I didn't. That's pretty cool". Thru all of this, I've learned to not be quite so quick to criticize our users for "not reading the freakin' screen". I'm a bit guilty of that myself.

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re: Did you know… You can use Breakpoint Filters to break the right process - #273

Ofek — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:45:44 GMT

Skip Valentine:

I think you could accomplish that by setting a DATA breakpoint (at the address of soldQuantity, say 0x12345678), and assigning a condition to it (say, ((INT*)0x12345678) == -5 ).

At least i know these are available for VC++. don't know much about VB though.

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Did you know… You can use Breakpoint Filters to break the right process - #273

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