Question

In Visual Studio, is there any way to make the debugger break whenever a certain file (or class) is entered? Please don’t answer ‘just set a breakpoint at the beginning of every method’ 🙂

I am using C#.

Answer 1

Macros can be your friend. Here is a macro that will add a breakpoint to every method in the current class (put the cursor somewhere in the class before running it).

Public Module ClassBreak     Public Sub BreakOnAnyMember()         Dim debugger As EnvDTE.Debugger = DTE.Debugger         Dim sel As EnvDTE.TextSelection = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection         Dim editPoint As EnvDTE.EditPoint = sel.ActivePoint.CreateEditPoint()         Dim classElem As EnvDTE.CodeElement = editPoint.CodeElement(vsCMElement.vsCMElementClass)          If Not classElem Is Nothing Then             For Each member As EnvDTE.CodeElement In classElem.Children                 If member.Kind = vsCMElement.vsCMElementFunction Then                     debugger.Breakpoints.Add(member.FullName)                 End If             Next         End If     End Sub  End Module 

Edit: Updated to add breakpoint by function name, rather than file/line number. It ‘feels’ better and will be easier to recognise in the breakpoints window.