Since a couple of weeks the Visual Studio (2008 9.0.30729.1 SP) Exception Assistant has stopt appearing while debugging using the C# IDE. Instead the old ugly and useless debug dialog comes up:
(source: msdn.com)
To make sure, I’ve checked the following:
- “Tools / Options / Debugging / General / Enable the exception assistant” is on.
- “Debug / Exceptions / Common Language Runtime Exceptions / Thrown” is on.
- I reset my Visual Studio Settings.
- I googled.
- I checked all relevant stackoverflow questions.
How can I get the Exception Assistant back? Who gives me the golden tip?
It’s a real shot in the dark but it might be worth trying uninstalling some recent Windows updates.
The recentish KB978037 update broke debugging of console mode programs, so this has made me (for one) a bit suspicious of them now:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsdebug/thread/e6d4a4f5-7002-401a-90e1-6174d7f9e3ca
To be fair, this is the first time I’ve noticed anything really awful arising from a patch, but it’s worth a shot. (If you turn off the automatic install of updates, then you can try this stuff out without too much fear. Windows Update seems to re-download any patches you uninstall so you can easily put them back again.)