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Did you know… You can set a breakpoint on a function from the Find Combo Box? - #235

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Today’s tip was a part of tip #8 from my TechEd 2008 IDE Tips and Tricks talk on using Visual Studio Commands from the command window and the find combo box.

In the standard command bar, you’ll see the Find Combo Box right next to Find in Files.  You can obviously type in a function name and hit enter to search, but where’s the fun in that?

Foo method in find combo box

Type in the name of the method, as i have above, and hit F9.  You’ll notice the breakpoint is set at function foo.

Breakpoint set at method foo

Why did this happen?

F9 is bound to a command called Debug.ToggleBreakpoint.  If there’s text in the find combo box and you run a VS command from within the find combo box, VS will use that text as the command parameter.  In the case of F9, VS toggled a breakpoint at the specified function, hence setting a breakpoint at foo().

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  • Anonymous
    June 10, 2008
    Doesn't work for me with VS2005 ... hitting enter directly navigates to the method I've described, however F9 gives no result. What gives?

  • Anonymous
    June 11, 2008
    My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. Sara Ford's Tip of the Day #233 covers increasing Visual Studio environment fonts for presentations . US ISV Developer Evangelism

  • Anonymous
    June 11, 2008
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    June 12, 2008
    Great Tip! @Fegelein: works for me in VS2005