Question

I am having trouble debugging my XNA application, using VS 2010 ultimate and XNA GameStudio 4.0.
When I set a breakpoint inside one of the Draw methods and the execution hits the breakpoint, the whole application freezes, goes “not responding” and I can’t switch to back to VS until I kill the process from Task Manager.
Is this innate to the way the Draw method works in XNA or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks for an answer

Answer 1

You need to run XNA in windowed mode. This can be done with some code like this when you load the game:

graphics = new GraphicsDeviceManager(this);     // "this" being your Game class
graphics.PreferredBackBufferWidth = 1024;
graphics.PreferredBackBufferHeight = 768;
graphics.IsFullScreen = false;
graphics.ApplyChanges();

(edit: sorry for not reading the comments above)