Debugger hell (7-18-2002)

[Drew Tennenbaum]

There is an old thread I found on google where the OP was exhibiting the
same problems I am seeing.

Reference "Debugger hell" posted 7-18-2002 by Sean Gies

I am running Visual Studio 2003 RTM. Has this problem been fixed? I have a
C# application that calls a managed C++ wrapper of a native C++ dll.
Everything works fine. However, I notice on occasional breakpoints in my
native code, everything freezes and it takes a while to bring up TaskManager
to kill devenv. This is _really_ frustrating me and I am starting to worry
that this is going to delay our release date.

Any information is helpful.

-Drew

 

[Drew]

Thanks Tian for the response. I will try your suggestions.

To answer your question about breakpoints and where and when this
problem occurs, it appears to be random. For instance, last week I had
set a breakpoint in my native C++ DLL. VS broke at a function and then
when I tried to step into the function, VS froze up and it took a
while to kill VS. I moved the breakpoint down past the function, and
it was better, although very slow. I notice when stepping through my
native code the debugger reacts very slowly, but when I am stepping
through my managed code it appears to be more responsive.

-Drew