How Do I: Create a Breakpoint Using Conditions? [C# Express]

Question

I\'ve been seeing this in my Visual C# 2008 RSS Feed forever now:

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I\'m pretty sure this is a VS 2010 only featu

Answer 1

The other way to do this is make your own conditions and use a call to:

System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break(); 

While it may not be as sophisticated as the VS2010 way of setting breakpoints, you can get the same effect with minimal code overhead. Just remember to take that stuff out when you build release code.

Note: In VS2008 and VS2005, you can set a conditional breakpoint by setting a regular breakpoint (F9 or double click in gutter), and then right clicking on that breakpoint to set the "condition...". The ability to set conditional breakpoints is NOT available in the VS2008 Express Edition.