Debugging question

[Harry F. Harrison]

In the IDE, is it possible to have the debugger ignore 'first chance
exceptions' for a specific method?

I have my IDE set to 'break into the debugger' for CLR exceptions.

However, I have a few situations, where exceptions are thrown, but are
handled, and I don't want the debugger to stop and wait for me to continue
for those methods- it gets old.

2 examples:

I have a situation where I call the ODBC Provider DataAdapter Fill method to
return schema information, and I get a first chance exception because the
provider can't return multiple results, but I get my data, and don't really
care about the exception. However, the debugger stops on the error, then if
I hit 'Continue', it goes without throwing me the error later.

Another place is date validation. I use the Microsoft.VisualBasic.IsDate()
function, and it returns an exception - argh - it should just return True or
False - it's a boolean function.

I sure miss VB6 - 'Break on unhandled errors' feature.

 

[Josh Moody [MSFT]]

In the debug menu -> Exceptions, at the bottom of the window that appears,
choose "Continue" for "When the exception is thrown" and "Break into the
debugger" for "If the exception is not handled".

That should do exactly what you are looking for.

Josh Moody
Developer Division Sustained Engineering Team

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