C#•10mo 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 option enabled. Some people on SO suggested that we should go to Exception Settings menu and enable 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.

8 Replies

mtreit•10mo ago

You need to uncheck the exception type in Exception Settings

mtreit•10mo ago

mtreit•10mo ago

If you uncheck all CLR exceptions it won't break on first chance. Only on second chance (i.e., unhandled.)

mtreit•10mo ago

So for instance this only breaks on the second call

SimonOP•10mo ago

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

mtreit•10mo ago

Does this trivial test program break for you or not?

using System;

Test("foo");

try
{
    Test(null);
}
catch
{
}

Test(null);

static void Test(string something)
{
    _ = something ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(something));
}

using System;

Test("foo");

try
{
    Test(null);
}
catch
{
}

Test(null);

static void Test(string something)
{
    _ = something ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(something));
}

You should see the 'Exception Unhandled' box as in my screenshot. In your case there might be an exception handler higher up the stack that is catching it. A true unhandled exception crashes the program. So you should definitely see that dialog.

SimonOP•10mo ago

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 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 😅

abdulrauf6514•10mo ago

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