saving program state (visual studio 2008)

Question

I am debugging (in Visual Studio 2008) a utility I have written in C++. Combining massive input files with my slow machine and it can take upwards of 6 hours to get to the point where I need to watch the program execution for irregularities.

I am probably grasping at straws here, but is anyone aware of feature or plugin or something within Visual Studio or something of the like where I can save program execution state so that I can bypass the time it takes to get where I need to be?

Answer 1

I'm not sure of possibilities within Visual Studio for doing such a thing, but if you can't find anything I would try using a Virtual Machine and saving the state of the machine. It will probably be horribly slow but may help in the long run. Good luck