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Captain Comic
Captain Comic

Reputation: 16196

How to make application stop and run debugger?

I have .NET service and I need to debug it.

I want it to stop when it reaches some place in code and start the debugger. Can anyone provide some code sample?

UPDATE

Simply adding 

Debugger.Launch();

does not work for Windows service.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4249

Answers (4)

zabulus
zabulus

Reputation: 2513

  1. Add the following code to the place where you want to stop service.
  2. Run Service.
  3. Attach debugger
  4. Add f to watch, change it value to false

  5. Continue debugging

    bool f=true; while(f) {//<- Add breakpoint here

    }

Upvotes: 0

prashaNET
prashaNET

Reputation: 61

Here are the steps for that:

1) Stop & uninstall the running service 2) Rename or remove the release version of the service 2) Create a Debug build of the service 3) Install this debug build of service 4) Start the service 5) Open the service solution from Visual studio 6) Select Tools->Attach process 7) In the process list you will see the running service, Attach it 8) Set breakpoints wherever required

Upvotes: -1

Nathan Baulch
Nathan Baulch

Reputation: 20683

Try using Debugger.Break(), as per this answer.

Upvotes: 5

Klaus Byskov Pedersen
Klaus Byskov Pedersen

Reputation: 120927

Add a Debugger.Launch(); to the place in your code where you want to start debugging.

Upvotes: 4

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