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Is there a more visual way to differentiate what process you are busy debugging when hitting a break point and then switching between the processes using the process drop down?

Something in the line of different background windows colors per process?

Possibly a add on or plugin?

Alien_SM
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At present, I haven’t found any plug-in that could highlight the process that is currently debugging in Visual Studio. But the tools those Visual Studio offers could help us to differentiate them while multi-process debugging:

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You can see there are two places where we could find out the current process under debugging: In the process window (Debug -> Windows -> Processes), it gives the golden arrow.

In the right hand, at the top of Diagnostic Tools, there is also a pop-up which indicates the process with PID that is under debugging. I also found thread talking about the similar issue which also might help:

How can I tell which process I am debugging (attached to multiple processes)?

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  • Jup found all of these also and while these work they aren't very visual – Alien_SM Jan 21 '18 at 00:30
  • @Alien_SM Maybe there are some other third-part tools which could help to display it more visually, but at present the default ones in Visual Studio just work like above.I will update it if I can find a better tool for this, of course you also could share it with us if you find any. – Fletcher Jan 22 '18 at 09:39