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Where did my Visual Studio exception assistant go?

Since a couple of weeks the Visual Studio (2008 9.0.30729.1 SP) Exception Assistant has stopt appearing while debugging using the C# IDE. Instead the old ugly and useless debug dialog comes up:

DebugExceptionModal
(source: msdn.com)

To make sure, I've checked the following:

  • "Tools / Options / Debugging / General / Enable the exception assistant" is on.
  • "Debug / Exceptions / Common Language Runtime Exceptions / Thrown" is on.
  • I reset my Visual Studio Settings.
  • I googled.
  • I checked all relevant stackoverflow questions.

How can I get the Exception Assistant back? Who gives me the golden tip?

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Steven Avatar asked Mar 11 '10 16:03

Steven


2 Answers

You can also see this dialog if you have enabled Debuggers > Native Code in your project setting. If you turn it off it should work again.

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pvasek Avatar answered Oct 14 '22 11:10

pvasek


I've tried every solution suggested on this page, in vain. In my case, I tried uninstall and reinstall (yes, it was that annoying). And it still didn't solve the issue.

The only thing actually solved it, was unchecking "Enable unmanaged code debugging" from project properties => Debug:

unchecking "Enable unmanaged code debugging" from project properties -> Debug in VS2010

:-)

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itsho Avatar answered Oct 14 '22 11:10

itsho