Trigger Suspend/Resume in Visual Studio 11 Beta?

Question

In Windows 8 Developer preview, one can debug the Suspending event present in App.xaml.cs by using the options available in Debug menu -> Trigger Suspend.I'm unable to find the option "Trigger Suspend" in Visual Studio 11 Beta. How can I debug the same here?

In Windows 8 Developer preview, Metro app would go to suspend state in 5 sec's if user switches from one app to another app. I could not observe the same behavior in Windows 8 consumer preview. Is there any change in application life cycle in Windows 8 consumer here? 

Answer 1

In Visual Studio 11 Beta, the Suspend, Resume, and Suspend and Shutdown options are still available.  They have been moved to the debugging toolbar:

~Gearard

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Answer 2

Hi Gearard,

Thanks for your answer, but however I only find this to suspend or resume app "manually".

Even I build it as "release" version, I still could not suspend and resume app automatically

I could not find any setting and related document about this, could you point out any direction of this?

Best regards,

Evan Lin

Answer 3

Hi Evan -

Are you running with the debugger attached?  Even in a release build, if you are running with the debugger attached the normal process lifetime management features are disabled; the only way to trigger them would be via the commands I shared above.

~Gearard

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Answer 4

Hi Gearard,

Thanks for your information, I already work on my side.

I also figure out suspends event will call when I leave app about 5 seconds.

I also do some testing about sleep and hibernate, it will trigger app suspends here.

Do we need to handle any specific for sleep/hibernate during app suspends? (seems sleep/hibernate preparing time is less than 5 seconds)

~Evan Lin

Answer 5

>> In Visual Studio 11 Beta, the Suspend, Resume, and Suspend and Shutdown options are still available.  They have been moved to the debugging toolbar:

To save someone else from searching, the options are on the Debug Location toolbar.

-Mike

Answer 6

And where is it in VS2012 RC ?

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C++ DX11

Answer 7

Oh,it just has no Name.

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C++ DX11

Answer 8

Looking myself and found it under  View->toolbars->debug location