I am writing a multi-threaded Windows application in Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition. Recently, the debugger has been acting strangely.
While I am Stepping Over lines of code using the F10, sometimes it will interpret my Step Over (F10) command just like a Continue command (F5) and then the program will resume running and the debugging session will be done.
Does anyone know why this happening? In what circumstances can the Step Over command result in the debugger stopping?
It’s not a problem with the code being debugged: it doesn’t just happen on particular lines of code. It happens on a random line that is different each time I run the debugger.
It’s not a problem with my keyboard: the same thing happens when I just click Step Over in the Debug toolbar.
It may be a problem with the other threads in my program. Maybe one of them is randomly doing something that has a side effect of interrupting the debugger. Is that possible?
Thanks in advance!
You ought to take a look at this KB article and consider its matching hotfix.
EDIT: the hotfix does solve these kind of debugging problems. Unfortunately, the source code changes for the hotfix didn’t make it back into the main branch and VS2010 shipped with the exact same problems. This got corrected again by its Service Pack 1.