Edit and Continue

The Edit and Continue features enable you to fix bad code and resume the application execution from the point where it was broken, without having to restart the application. You just need to run the application by pressing F5; and then you can break its execution by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Break or either selecting Debug, Break All or clicking Pause on the Debug toolbar.

Availability of Edit and Continue

Generally, you can use the Edit and Continue features, but there are situations in which you can’t. For example, if fixing your code might influence the general application behavior, you need to restart the application. It is worth mentioning that Visual Studio 2015 introduces support for Edit and Continue against lambda expressions. ...

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