c# - Programmatically apply / deactivate breakpoints in Visual Studio

Question

Regardless of other options that may achieve the same result (i.e. adding breakpoints by hand), is it possible to programmatically add a breakpoint into the source code of a Visual Studio project?

Such as:

try
{
    FunctionThatThrowsErrors(obj InscrutableParameters);
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
    Log.LogTheError(ex);
    AddBreakPointToCallingFunction();
}

That way when you run in debug the next time, it will automatically have set breakpoints at all the points that caused trouble during the last run.

I'm not saying that's a particularly useful way of debugging. I'm just wondering if the capability is there.

Answer 1

You can just call System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break().

You can also tell Visual Studio to break on all exceptions, even handled ones, by going on the menu to Debug->Exceptions... and checking Thrown everywhere that's currently only checked "User-unhandled".