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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 1232

How do you prevent VS debugger from showing exception on every await?

In a call stack which contains several await statements, when an exception is thrown, the debugger keeps showing the error at each await statement. I was wondering if there's a way to have the debugger only show the initial place where the exception is thrown, but not stop at ever await.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 288

Answers (2)

user8126467
user8126467

Reputation:

How about System.Diagnostics.DebuggerHidden attribute? This attribute is used to hide a method or property from the debugger which also prevent debugger from intercepting exception.

[System.Diagnostics.DebuggerHidden]
private static void SecretRun(IEnumerable<int> ints)
{
   foreach (var i in ints)
   {
       try
       {
           if (i < 50) Console.WriteLine("next" + i);
           else throw new Exception("some exception");
       }
       catch
       {
           // Ignored
       }
    }
}

Cons: You will not be able to debug into a method tagged with DebuggerHidden attribute.

In order to use this attribute, you need to check "Enable Just My Code" at Tools > Options > Debugging > General

Upvotes: 2

Jamie Lupton
Jamie Lupton

Reputation: 118

I'm not sure if there is a setting for what you've mentioned. But if there is a specific error that you are trying to catch/debug then you can change your exception settings (ctrl + alt + E) and tick "Common Language Runtime Exceptions". This will break on the initial error. Then just right click, restore defaults when you're done.

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Upvotes: 0

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