I am running some import code asynchronously from a simple WinForms app using a BackgroundWorker object and its DoAsync() method. I had a problem where I didn’t know that exceptions were being thrown and the thread was prematurely dying. I eventually discovered this, and now know when an exception is thrown after reading Unhandled exceptions in BackgroundWorker.
However, I still have a problem while debugging. How do I debug this code? I guess I could run it in a test app that doesn’t use a BackgrounWorker, but is there a way to debug this as is? If I step through the code that actually throws the exception, I just get kicked out the step-through when the exception occurs. Re-throwing the exception from the RunWorkerCompletedEventHandler naturally doesn’t help much either.
Any ideas!? Thanks in advance!
Why not use “Break On Exceptions” option of VS (Ctrl + Alt + E or Debug->Exceptions and put checkbox in Thrown column)? This will stop your program execution when any exception is thrown.