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Asked: 2026-05-25T16:24:18+00:00

VS 2010 Pro, C#, WinForms: at the very beginning of my method I am

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VS 2010 Pro, C#, WinForms:
at the very beginning of my method I am saying Debug.Writeline("entering method blah"); then somewhere inside this method I am putting some breakpoints and run the program. so I see that execution is stopped at those break points, so it is here! but if I search the Output->Debug combobox mode and also Immediate window I cannot find the message I has written for Debug.Writeline anywhere.

I also tried that heck box setting in Debug options that says “Redirect all output to Immediate window”….did not help either.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Discussed already in the comments, but I wasn’t sure until discussing it there. However:

    • calls to Debug.Whatever(...) are typically marked with [Conditional("DEBUG")], meaning they require the DEBUG symbol to be defined, otherwise those calls are not compiled
    • a default project has DEBUG and TRACE defined for the “Debug” profile, and TRACE for the “Release” profile
    • however, you can disable the DEBUG symbol via a checkbox in “project properties”

    So; go to project-properties, and ensure the DEBUG symbol is defined (or not) as appropriate for your needs (for any-and-all profiles that exist in your project).

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