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Asked: 2026-05-28T06:03:25+00:00

I apologize if this is a duplicate post, but I couldn’t find the answer

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I apologize if this is a duplicate post, but I couldn’t find the answer in any other thread.

I am aware I could step into my application by starting the debugger with F10 or F11. I am also aware that I could set a breakpoint on certain GUI events. However – this is not what I want.

I would like to be able to press a button somewhere in VS, and have it kick into “step-into” mode so that the next piece of user code that gets triggered is stepped through. I want to do this so I don’t have to set breakpoints all over in my code. It would save me a lot of time to be able to get the application in a certain state, manually turn on step-into mode, and then do something to trigger code to run that I want to step through.

Any ideas?

Edit:

Here’s a step by step since I didn’t explain it very well. There are two suggestions to use the Break All, but this still occurs before what I’m trying to do.

My goal:

  1. Launch Application
  2. Manipulate Application without breakpoints/step-through
  3. Manually Turn on Step-Through
  4. Trigger code (click a button, hover over something, change focus, etc.)
  5. Be in step through mode at the code that was triggered by my action.

As you can see – the Break All command occurs as does not allow me to trigger step 4. It immediately halts the program, and I’m still left finding the code that will trigger when I perform an action.

I understand this may not be possible; I just want to hear that from the experts so I can stop looking for it.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Occassionally I use “Disable Break Points” and “Enable Break Points” to do what you want, otherwise I do what ChrisF answered.

    Also another trick with ChrisF’s answer, when you Press Ctrl + Alt + Break and you F10 or F11 till the code finishes and your left seeing application, the IDE is still in step thru mode – meaning when you say click a button the event wont just fire off, the IDE will halt in the first line of code in the button click event, even though the button click event doesn’t have a breakpoint in it.

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