Setting exceptions to break on when thrown with a macro

Question

Does anyone know if there is a way to set the exceptions to break on when thrown with a marco. I either want them all off or all but two on and would like to be able to do this with out having to navigate through the dialog.

 

Thanks

Answer 1

This can be done in VS 2008:

 

Sub Macro1()

Dim debugger As Debugger3 = DTE.Debugger

Dim clrGroup = debugger.ExceptionGroups.Item("Common Language Runtime Exceptions")

Dim nullRef = clrGroup.Item("System.NullReferenceException")

clrGroup.SetBreakWhenThrown(True, nullRef)

End Sub

Answer 2

Thank you. I am using VS 2005 though so I guess I can't.

Answer 3

Ok, now I have VS 2008. Is there any way to set BreakWhenThrown to true for all the exceptions in the "Common Language Runtime Exceptions" that is actually faster than doing it manually? Calling SetBreakWhenThrown for all of them takes longer than 10 minutes (I'm not patient enough to find out exactly how long it takes). This makes the "feature" useless.

Sub TurnOnBreakWhenThrown()
        Dim debugger As Debugger3 = DTE.Debugger
        Dim clrGroup = debugger.ExceptionGroups.Item("Common Language Runtime Exceptions")

        'turn on break when thrown for all ExceptionSettings in "Common Language Runtime Exceptions"
        For Each expressionSetting As ExceptionSetting In clrGroup
            If (expressionSetting.BreakWhenThrown() = False) Then
                clrGroup.SetBreakWhenThrown(True, expressionSetting)
            End If
        Next
End Sub

Answer 4

A similar question was posted and answered at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/958011/toggle-break-when-an-exception-is-thrown-using-macro-or-keyboard-shortcut. It works for all CLR exceptions and takes ~1.5s to execute.