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Thanks – Deon Herbert
Visual Studio Team
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x64 edit and continue
Imporve x64 debugger so Edit and Contunue works when running on Windows x64 o/s
2,584 votes -
Function return value in debugger
I want to able to see function return value in managed debugger just like unmanaged debuger (it has this feature from Visual Studio 6.0!).
1,094 votes -
Bring back the MPI Cluster Debugger to VS 2012
In Visual Studio 2010 there is an MPI Cluster Debugger that allows us to debug MPI applications.
It seems that this feature has gone, so please bring it back to make it easier to develop MPI applications on Windows.279 votes -
XAML Debugger
I would really like xaml debugger! I think that this caution is necessary! very difficult to find errors in the xaml.
230 votes -
allow breakpoints to be set on no-body properties.
Often times I am motivated to create properties that have no custom accessor or specifier bodies. For example:
class Person
{
private int _age { get; set; }
}The advantage of a property over field in this case is that if I ever want to debug how and when _age is being mutated or accessed I can fill in the bodies of get and set with an obligatory backing field:
class Person
{
private int _ageBacking;private int _age { get { return _ageBacking; } set { _ageBacking = value; }
}and set breakpoints in the get and…
87 votes -
86 votes
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Enable Edit and Continue for Silverlight
Enable "Edit and Continue" when debugging silverlight projects.
It is very annoying and fells like the 20th century that you first have to stop debugging before you make any change to the code (or comments) and then have to restart the whole application.
63 votes -
Provide message based debugging
The debugger in VS is farily decent. However it appears to be lacking one essential feature for debugging Windows applications that are event based. That would be the ability to easily debug the source of messages being posted to a window.
I typically have to resort to Spyxx.exe to view events while I am also debugging in Visual Studio. That is fraught with issues as Spyxx has problems when the debugger is running. Spy can detect an issue with "hooks" that can cause the system to lock up so spy tells me it is refusing to log messages. Sometimes I…
63 votes -
Add comments to code while debugging
When I'm debugging I look with different eyes at my code. It makes me wonder what things do and it would be a great time to add some comments to the code. Unluckily (while the executing code is not changed) I can not add comments and always have to remember where I wanted to add some extra comments,
60 votes -
LINQ Debugging
Improve debugging support for Ix and Rx queries in the IDE. Specifically, a condensed call stack view that was more of a "query stack" would be great. It would also be great if we could hook into the "query stack" features from our own LINQ-based APIs.
52 votes -
Attach child process to debugger automatically
Visual Studio debugger should support automatically debugging created child processes
46 votes -
Under the Debug Menu, Add an Attach to IIS item
Under the Debug Menu, add an Attach to IIS item. The new feature should detect the correct IIS process for the installed OS. This relieves the user from searching through the Attach to Process list to find aspnet_wp or w3wp.
35 votes -
IL debugging
If no sources are available, instead of showing x86 assembly, show .NET IL and allow to step through the IL instructions.
30 votes -
Improve breakpoint condition editor
Add IntelliSence support or at least condition history picker
28 votes -
Implement a way to save "Break when Exception is:" configurations
The "exceptions" Dialog isn't very usefull.
Somtimes i want to break on IOException somtimes on ArgumentException or a set of n other Exceptions. Everytime I have to open the Dialog serch for the Exceptions check them and close the dialog. Everytiem the same work.It would be nice to have a "Save configuration as" Button in the Dialog to save the curretn configuration under a specific name. Later you can select a configuration via a submenu entry in the Debug-->Exceptions menu.
27 votes -
Allow Modules window to be filtered or grouped
Currently Debug->Modules window doesn't allow neither to be filtered (e.g. by name and wildcard) or grouped (e.g. by process),
nor columns to be truly hidden (columns' width is decreased to 0 instead).26 votes -
Support for reverse debugging in C++
Under Linux reverse debugging of C++ code is possible for a while. Both by a commercial solution (UndoDB (http://undo-software.com/)) and meanwhile by GDB, too (http://www.gnu.org/s/gdb/news/reversible.html).
It's time to add this capability to the Visual Studio debugger, too.
25 votes -
Shortcut for "Starting a new instance" of the Startup project
When you're using TFS and want to run you application, hitting 'F5' could be a pain in the ***.
You'll have to right-click on you project>Debug>Start new instance.A shortcut for that would come in handy for the startup project in your solution.
Shortcuts are the key to smooth working in my opinion.
24 votes -
Option to debug/test using the build configuration's config transform.
Config transforms change behavior that should be easily testable.
Without this option either the web.config must be edited or the app must be published.
Please add an easy way to use a config transform during debug and test without changing the web.config itself. If the config file is changed, then it would be easy to accidentally commit those changes to source control.20 votes -
Add support to watch getters (const functions) in C++
Add support to watch expressions with getters (const functions) in C++
Examples:
1.
float GetWidth() const;
float GetHeight() const;area = obj.GetWidth() * obj.GetHeight();
2.
const float operator[](unsigned int index) const;val = obj1[i] + obj2[i+1];
20 votes
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