Jul 2, 2010 Posted by John MacIntyre

Visual Studio Bug – ‘if’ followed by a try / catch causes debugger stepping error

Yesterday I was debugging and stepped into a method. I wanted to get past my parameter validation checks and into the meat of the method, so I quickly, F10’d my way down the method, but I noticed a line of code was stepped on which should not have been touched. The code was a simple parameter validation like: 1 2 if (enumerableObj == null) throw new... read more

Jan 28, 2010 Posted by John MacIntyre

Workaround: Visual Studio Debugger will not step.

Often while I’m stepping through server side code, I’ll get the error message “Unable to step. The operation could not be completed. A retry should be performed.” Or the “Unable to step. The message filter indicated that the application is busy.” message. Once you’ve gotten either of these messages, neither F10 or F11 will work, you just keep getting the same... read more