Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft® Visual Studio®

07.23 Set a Complex Breakpoint Condition

MENU	[Context Menu] | Condition
COMMAND	EditorContextMenus.CodeWindow.Breakpoint.BreakpointCondition
VERSIONS	2005, 2008, 2010
CODE	vstipDebug0022

We previously discussed how to set simple conditions. (See vstipDebug0021, 07.22 Set a Simple Breakpoint Condition, on page 318.) The real power of the Breakpoint Condition dialog box is the ability to execute any line of code from it:

For example, you can use it to call external methods. The following example illustrates this, but bear in mind that it’s a contrived example, designed to show how this works. The following illustration shows the code we want to execute: ...