C#•2y ago

Visual Studio Exception Settings

Visual Studio breaks on handled exceptions. I've looked at more than like 20 stackoverflow questions but none of them really helped.

try {
  // Do something that throws an exception.
} catch (Exception ex) { }

try {
  // Do something that throws an exception.
} catch (Exception ex) { }

VS will stop on a simple code like that.
As for my settings, I have

Just My Code

Just My Code

option enabled.
Some people on SO suggested that we should go to

Exception Settings

Exception Settings

menu and enable

Continue when unhandled in user code

Continue when unhandled in user code

but this makes no sense, I want it to break on unhandled code but continue as it should on handled code. I'm really not sure why this simple feature is so hard to get it working, so I'd really appreciate any help.

mtreit•1/29/24, 7:56 PM

You need to uncheck the exception type in Exception Settings

mtreit•1/29/24, 7:58 PM

mtreit•1/29/24, 7:58 PM

If you uncheck all CLR exceptions it won't break on first chance.

mtreit•1/29/24, 7:58 PM

Only on second chance (i.e., unhandled.)

mtreit•1/29/24, 8:00 PM

So for instance this only breaks on the second call

SimonOP•1/29/24, 8:07 PM

thats the problem, if I just uncheck them it wont break on unhandled exceptions, im not sure why

mtreit•1/29/24, 8:08 PM

Does this trivial test program break for you or not?

mtreit•1/29/24, 8:08 PM

You should see the 'Exception Unhandled' box as in my screenshot.

mtreit•1/29/24, 8:09 PM

In your case there might be an exception handler higher up the stack that is catching it.

mtreit•1/29/24, 8:11 PM

A true unhandled exception crashes the program.

mtreit•1/29/24, 8:11 PM

So you should definitely see that dialog.

SimonOP•1/29/24, 8:11 PM

yeah youre right i think i have some kind of global handler that just catches all exceptions, i its a big project that i havent touched in years, ill have to take a look at that

SimonOP•1/29/24, 8:34 PM

okay yeah it seems like its a handler from a library that i use which redirects everything somewhere else. i feel dumb for not considering that thank you very much

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