What option in Visual Studio let catching exception where it occurred?

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VS 2010. The same WPF project, debug mode, two computers:

A -- when exception occurrs the caret is placed at the point of exception
B -- when the exception occurrs, correct exception is shown but caret is always placed at "win.ShowDialog()" in App.xaml.cs -- this is main entry for showing & running my application, in such case it is very tiresome to track down where the exception occurred

What kind of settings control such behaviour? Of course I would like to switch B, so when exception hits I would be placed at the point of exception, not at the main entry.

See the accepted answer to this question - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/116896/visual-studio-how-to-break-on-handled-exceptions — ChrisF, Dec 27 '10 at 11:50

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 27 '10 at 11:52

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You mean you'd want to break the IDE on the line where the exception has been thrown ?

It is in the Debug menu, under exceptions. There you can check a checkbox that 'll make sure the IDE breaks in the code and shows the line where the exception has been thrown.

answered Dec 27 '10 at 11:52

Frederik Gheysels

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Ha! Great, thank you (why I had different settings on exceptions -- God knows). – greenoldman Dec 27 '10 at 12:21

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 27 '10 at 12:20

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I think the OP is asking about SEH, and catching "First class exceptions", which naturally requires SEH exception handling, not sure if this is still true in C#.

answered Dec 27 '10 at 12:20

Arafangion

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I don't know what is SEH, but I wanted VS to stop at the line which caused the exception, not when exception is passed all the way up, to the main entry of application. – greenoldman Dec 27 '10 at 12:24
Found it -- Structured Exception Handling ;-) – greenoldman Dec 27 '10 at 12:33

What option in Visual Studio let catching exception where it occurred?

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