Question

I’m working within WinForms (.net 3.5), and have the following line of code:

     HitTestResult result;
     try
     {
        result = this.HitTest( e.X, e.Y, ChartElementType.DataPoint);
     }
     catch(Exception e)
     {
        //This happens, we don't care!
     }

I have no control over whether HitTest throws an exception, but if it does, I absolutely do not care.

Is it possible to disable my IDE from halting at this SPECIFIC catch block? I understand I can disable the System.FormatException it may throw (from the Debug->Exceptions menu, but that’s kind of overkill.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use the DebbugerStepThrough attribute to skip over that line. From MSDN:

Instructs the debugger to step through the code instead of stepping
into the code.

For example:

[DebuggerStepThrough]
public void MyMethod()
{
    HitTestResult result;
    try
    {
        result = this.HitTest(e.X, e.Y, ChartElementType.DataPoint);
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        //This happens, we don't care!
    }
}