Only break for certain exception types

Question

I know Exception Handling is a very important thing and we are doing it in all our projects. The main reason is to log errors that occur at the customers. This works fine and is not problem at all.

But while I am still coding and running the application with Visual Studio I don't want any exception handling at all. I want the debugger stop right at the line the application crashed and not in some error logger I wrote. And I don't want to forward exceptions with throw!

But I am still looking for an easy way to do that. I could write countless #if Debug or #if Release statements all around the try/catch but that is not what I want to do. Is there any other way to deal with this problem?

Answer 1

(1) Open Visual Studio with your project
(2) Debug Menu, Exceptions
(3) For the exception types you care about tick the Thrown box.

This will make it so that whenever an exception of the types chosen is thrown you will automatically break into it. When you want to go back to regular debugging go back to that same Exceptions window and click "Reset All" and you'll go back to the default settings.

Answer 2

You can configure the Visual Studio debugger to break when the exception is thrown. See the menu Debug -> Exceptions.

For additional information:

How to: Break When an Exception is Thrown

Answer 3

in visualstudio Menu Debug->Exception Check all under the column "Thrown". By default, All items will be check for column "User Unhandled"

This way, debugger will break whenever the exception is thrown.

Note: this will not be part of project property