One of the things I loved about VB6 is that you had the ability to tell the development environment to break on all errors regardless of what error handling you had set up. Is it possible to do the same thing in VS2008 so that the debugger will stop on any error even if it happens inside a try-catch statement?
The problem is particularly hard when you are processing a file with say 500 records and it is failing on one of them – who knows which one – You don’t want to modify the code so that your for counter is initialized outside that for loop – that is sloppy long-term. You just want the debugger to know to stop because of some setting you put somewhere.
Yes, go to ‘Debug’ menu, select ‘Exceptions…’, check ‘Thrown’ for ‘Common Language Runtime Exceptions’