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kumar
kumar

Reputation:

Breakpoints not working in Visual Studio 2008

When I hit F5, my VS 2008 opens my site in IE and halts. There is no sign in VS that the project is running. It enables the RUN button again even though the site is opened in IE. Hence, my breakpoints are also not working.

This behaviour started happening suddenly..

Any reasons why it happens and resolutions?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5486

Answers (3)

newenglander
newenglander

Reputation: 2049

This is a bit late, but in case anyone else has this problem, I'll post these two links that helped me when I had a similar problem:

  1. Forum describing similar problems: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsdebug/thread/f3fcb4fb-8a08-4fa0-8d58-9ed6f3eb1193

  2. Solution listed in the forum was this patch: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB957912/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=1796

Upvotes: 0

Brock Woolf
Brock Woolf

Reputation: 47302

One reason I have personally experienced:

  • Problem:
    Running two separate Solutions in their own instance of Visual Studio 2008

  • Solution:
    I closed both instances of VS, then started only one.

  • Conclusion 1: Visual Studio might have a problem when RAM is limited and silently disable breakpoints (fail)

  • Conclusion 2: Visual Studio might share some critical resources needed for breakpointing which the first instance holds onto and (again silently) the other instance won't even give you an error.

Lots of bugs and fail in Visual Studio.

Upvotes: 0

thijs
thijs

Reputation: 3465

Are you building in Debug mode? Release builds don't support breakpoints...

Upvotes: 1

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