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Asked: 2026-05-25T00:28:58+00:00

As the questions says, I want to write code or debug an appication in

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As the questions says, I want to write code or debug an appication in real-time without setting breakpoints or pausing/restarting the application.

For example, when I write a game, I want to see what is happening when I change the code for the calculation of the light effects or the AI of the enemies immediately, while running the game on my second monitor.

Update:
Ok, it seems that you guys don’t understand exactly what I want.

I want Visual Studio to be more like a WYSIWYG editor…make changes or add new code and see instantly what has changed in my application, without the application to pause it’s work.

Update:
I saw this feature in this Video with Java in Eclipse (go to 14:30, where he changes the light effects of the game without stopping it.)

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  1. Editorial Team

    Sometimes. Check out the Edit and Continue feature: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bcew296c%28v=vs.80%29.aspx

    Based on the comments, it sounds like you either want a dynamic language (a lot of games are scripted with LUA, or check our IronPython or IronRuby) or you want to dynamically load and reload assemblies, which would require something like MAF perhaps. With that, you could build the bits that you are changing as addins, and then unload and reload the addin assemblies when they change. That seems hacky though, and will likely perform poorly compared to a DLR language.

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