What is the meaning of the square breakpoint in Visual Studio?
I placed 2 breakpoints and one of them turned square. What does it mean? If it helps I am remotely debugging some code.
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I placed 2 breakpoints and one of them turned square. What does it mean? If it helps I am remotely debugging some code.
c# visual-studio debugging breakpoints visual-studio-debugging
edited 2 days ago
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It is conditional breakpoint. You can specify some condition like someValue == true then only then it will hit.
– fhnaseer
2 days ago
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@fhnaseer No, the indication for that is having a plus sign in the breakpoint symbol.
– NineBerry
2 days ago
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"◇" is a diamond (or less commonly, rhombus), "□" is a square. While I rarely ever post comments of this nature, I think it's important to note because people are more likely to be searching for the correct term for the symbol when encountering this situation.
– sfdcfox
2 days ago
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It is indeed referred to as a diamond in the documentation which is actually why I did not catch it in my search through the debugging section. It looks like it has 4 right angles which makes it a square still regardless of rotation.
– transporter_room_3
2 days ago
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I placed 2 breakpoints and one of them turned square. What does it mean? If it helps I am remotely debugging some code.
c# visual-studio debugging breakpoints visual-studio-debugging
edited 2 days ago
Muntasir
6241919
asked 2 days ago
transporter_room_3transporter_room_3
1,25521941
I placed 2 breakpoints and one of them turned square. What does it mean? If it helps I am remotely debugging some code.
c# visual-studio debugging breakpoints visual-studio-debugging
c# visual-studio debugging breakpoints visual-studio-debugging
edited 2 days ago
Muntasir
6241919
asked 2 days ago
transporter_room_3transporter_room_3
1,25521941
edited 2 days ago
Muntasir
6241919
asked 2 days ago
transporter_room_3transporter_room_3
1,25521941
edited 2 days ago
Muntasir
6241919
edited 2 days ago
Muntasir
6241919
edited 2 days ago
Muntasir
6241919
6241919
asked 2 days ago
transporter_room_3transporter_room_3
1,25521941
asked 2 days ago
transporter_room_3transporter_room_3
1,25521941
asked 2 days ago
transporter_room_3transporter_room_3
1,25521941
1,25521941
1
It is conditional breakpoint. You can specify some condition like someValue == true then only then it will hit.
– fhnaseer
2 days ago
6
@fhnaseer No, the indication for that is having a plus sign in the breakpoint symbol.
– NineBerry
2 days ago
5
"◇" is a diamond (or less commonly, rhombus), "□" is a square. While I rarely ever post comments of this nature, I think it's important to note because people are more likely to be searching for the correct term for the symbol when encountering this situation.
– sfdcfox
2 days ago
2
It is indeed referred to as a diamond in the documentation which is actually why I did not catch it in my search through the debugging section. It looks like it has 4 right angles which makes it a square still regardless of rotation.
– transporter_room_3
2 days ago
add a comment |
1
It is conditional breakpoint. You can specify some condition like someValue == true then only then it will hit.
– fhnaseer
2 days ago
6
@fhnaseer No, the indication for that is having a plus sign in the breakpoint symbol.
– NineBerry
2 days ago
5
"◇" is a diamond (or less commonly, rhombus), "□" is a square. While I rarely ever post comments of this nature, I think it's important to note because people are more likely to be searching for the correct term for the symbol when encountering this situation.
– sfdcfox
2 days ago
2
It is indeed referred to as a diamond in the documentation which is actually why I did not catch it in my search through the debugging section. It looks like it has 4 right angles which makes it a square still regardless of rotation.
– transporter_room_3
2 days ago
1
1
It is conditional breakpoint. You can specify some condition like someValue == true then only then it will hit.
– fhnaseer
2 days ago
It is conditional breakpoint. You can specify some condition like someValue == true then only then it will hit.
– fhnaseer
2 days ago
6
6
@fhnaseer No, the indication for that is having a plus sign in the breakpoint symbol.
– NineBerry
2 days ago
@fhnaseer No, the indication for that is having a plus sign in the breakpoint symbol.
– NineBerry
2 days ago
5
5
"◇" is a diamond (or less commonly, rhombus), "□" is a square. While I rarely ever post comments of this nature, I think it's important to note because people are more likely to be searching for the correct term for the symbol when encountering this situation.
– sfdcfox
2 days ago
"◇" is a diamond (or less commonly, rhombus), "□" is a square. While I rarely ever post comments of this nature, I think it's important to note because people are more likely to be searching for the correct term for the symbol when encountering this situation.
– sfdcfox
2 days ago
2
2
It is indeed referred to as a diamond in the documentation which is actually why I did not catch it in my search through the debugging section. It looks like it has 4 right angles which makes it a square still regardless of rotation.
– transporter_room_3
2 days ago
It is indeed referred to as a diamond in the documentation which is actually why I did not catch it in my search through the debugging section. It looks like it has 4 right angles which makes it a square still regardless of rotation.
– transporter_room_3
2 days ago
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It means execution will not break at that breakpoint, but only a message will be output in the debugging log.
To change this, right click on the breakpoint and choose "Settings" (In older VS Version) or "Actions" (starting with VS 2017).
See this question for why this is useful:
- What are tracepoints used for?
answered 2 days ago
NineBerryNineBerry
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Thanks for putting in how to change it. I'd never seen anything but a circle before. TIL!
– gregsdennis
2 days ago
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square breakpoint you mention is Breakpoint actions and tracepoints.
According to docs.microsoft.com debugger using breakpoint
Blockquote A tracepoint is a breakpoint that prints a message to the Output window. A tracepoint can act like a temporary trace statement in the programming language.
You can change the breakpoint setting by click on setting button near breakpoint by moving cursor to breakpoint.
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It means execution will not break at that breakpoint, but only a message will be output in the debugging log.
To change this, right click on the breakpoint and choose "Settings" (In older VS Version) or "Actions" (starting with VS 2017).
See this question for why this is useful:
- What are tracepoints used for?
answered 2 days ago
NineBerryNineBerry
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Thanks for putting in how to change it. I'd never seen anything but a circle before. TIL!
– gregsdennis
2 days ago
add a comment |
It means execution will not break at that breakpoint, but only a message will be output in the debugging log.
To change this, right click on the breakpoint and choose "Settings" (In older VS Version) or "Actions" (starting with VS 2017).
See this question for why this is useful:
- What are tracepoints used for?
answered 2 days ago
NineBerryNineBerry
14.9k23564
Thanks for putting in how to change it. I'd never seen anything but a circle before. TIL!
– gregsdennis
2 days ago
add a comment |
It means execution will not break at that breakpoint, but only a message will be output in the debugging log.
To change this, right click on the breakpoint and choose "Settings" (In older VS Version) or "Actions" (starting with VS 2017).
See this question for why this is useful:
- What are tracepoints used for?
answered 2 days ago
NineBerryNineBerry
14.9k23564
It means execution will not break at that breakpoint, but only a message will be output in the debugging log.
To change this, right click on the breakpoint and choose "Settings" (In older VS Version) or "Actions" (starting with VS 2017).
See this question for why this is useful:
- What are tracepoints used for?
answered 2 days ago
NineBerryNineBerry
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NineBerryNineBerry
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Thanks for putting in how to change it. I'd never seen anything but a circle before. TIL!
– gregsdennis
2 days ago
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Thanks for putting in how to change it. I'd never seen anything but a circle before. TIL!
– gregsdennis
2 days ago
Thanks for putting in how to change it. I'd never seen anything but a circle before. TIL!
– gregsdennis
2 days ago
Thanks for putting in how to change it. I'd never seen anything but a circle before. TIL!
– gregsdennis
2 days ago
add a comment |
square breakpoint you mention is Breakpoint actions and tracepoints.
According to docs.microsoft.com debugger using breakpoint
Blockquote A tracepoint is a breakpoint that prints a message to the Output window. A tracepoint can act like a temporary trace statement in the programming language.
You can change the breakpoint setting by click on setting button near breakpoint by moving cursor to breakpoint.
answered 2 days ago
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square breakpoint you mention is Breakpoint actions and tracepoints.
According to docs.microsoft.com debugger using breakpoint
Blockquote A tracepoint is a breakpoint that prints a message to the Output window. A tracepoint can act like a temporary trace statement in the programming language.
You can change the breakpoint setting by click on setting button near breakpoint by moving cursor to breakpoint.
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square breakpoint you mention is Breakpoint actions and tracepoints.
According to docs.microsoft.com debugger using breakpoint
Blockquote A tracepoint is a breakpoint that prints a message to the Output window. A tracepoint can act like a temporary trace statement in the programming language.
You can change the breakpoint setting by click on setting button near breakpoint by moving cursor to breakpoint.
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square breakpoint you mention is Breakpoint actions and tracepoints.
According to docs.microsoft.com debugger using breakpoint
Blockquote A tracepoint is a breakpoint that prints a message to the Output window. A tracepoint can act like a temporary trace statement in the programming language.
You can change the breakpoint setting by click on setting button near breakpoint by moving cursor to breakpoint.
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It is conditional breakpoint. You can specify some condition like someValue == true then only then it will hit.
– fhnaseer
2 days ago
6
@fhnaseer No, the indication for that is having a plus sign in the breakpoint symbol.
– NineBerry
2 days ago
5
"◇" is a diamond (or less commonly, rhombus), "□" is a square. While I rarely ever post comments of this nature, I think it's important to note because people are more likely to be searching for the correct term for the symbol when encountering this situation.
– sfdcfox
2 days ago
2
It is indeed referred to as a diamond in the documentation which is actually why I did not catch it in my search through the debugging section. It looks like it has 4 right angles which makes it a square still regardless of rotation.
– transporter_room_3
2 days ago