Debugging: C++ Templates, Brekpoints, and Visual Studio - [10:05 AM]

A good friend, and co-worker Tom, has been on a Linux trip lately, which isn't a bad thing since we do create products that run on Linux. I've been giving him a bad time lately about his newfound love of Vi, and now he's getting into gdb, God help us.

Yesterday Tom posted some very useful tips for debugging templates in gdb, thanks Tom, but man, can it get any more arcane?

In honor of Tom's hard work I thought I'd share the same tip, only mine will be for those of you using Visual Studio.

1) Locate the line of code you'd like to debug.
2) Left-Mouse click in the left 'gutter', the grey strip that runs down the left of your edit window.
3) Press F5, or select Debug > Start Debugging.
4) Wait to hit the breakpoint.

Happy Debugging!

Favorite Linux debugging tip (not): "Just add some printf's to it"

Labels: Development, Visual Studio