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Adding a Button to the Debug Toolbar in Visual Studio

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Here’s how you can add a button to the Debug toolbar in VS:

Attach to a process or run a project so that your solution is in “Running” mode

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I’ll attach to devenv.exe (and make sure that I have selected “Managed (v4.5, v4.0) code” as the code type that I want to attach to, otherwise some of the debugging commands won’t apply).

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Find the Debug Toolbar (depending on your VS settings, this toolbar might not show up, that’s ok, you can add any button to any toolbar)

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Hit the drop down arrow at the right side of the toolbar and select “Add or Remove Buttons” >> “Customize”

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On the Customize window press “Add Command…”

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Select the Category and Command that you are looking for then hit “OK”

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Hit the “Close” button on the Customize window

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The new button will now be in the toolbar

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In this case, the new button is disabled, because I haven’t broke execution yet.  After hitting the “Break All” button…

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…it becomes enabled

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 20, 2013
    Thanks, that's helpful. Any chance you know of a way to add a macro that will allow quick toggling of breaking or not breaking when CLR exceptions are thrown?  That's something I constantly find myself turning on and off, and it consists of these steps:
  • Debug -> Exceptions...
  • Check/uncheck checkbox in Exceptions dialog
  • Hit OK Just thought I'd ask.