How to: Enable Just-In-Time Debugging for Windows Forms
This topic applies to:
| Visual Studio Edition | Visual Basic | C# | C++ | J# |
| Express | No | No | No | No |
| Standard | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Pro/Team | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
You can enable Just-In-Time debugging to launch the Visual Studio debugger automatically when a program, running outside Visual Studio, encounters a fatal error. Just-In-Time debugging is enabled in the Options dialog box.
Windows Forms applications require the following additional steps, because, by default, Windows Forms applications have a top-level exception handler that allows the program to continue to run if it can recover.
Procedure
To enable Just-In-Time debugging of a Windows Form
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Set the jitDebugging value in the machine.config or application.exe.config file, located in the system.windows.forms section to true. For example:
<configuration> <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" /> </configuration> -
In addition, Windows Forms created by using C++ must have the DebuggableAttribute set in a .config file or within their code. If you compile with /Zi and without /Og, the compiler sets this attribute for you. If you want to debug a non-optimized release build, however, you must set this yourself by adding the following line to your application's AssemblyInfo.cpp file:
[assembly:System::Diagnostics::DebuggableAttribute(true, true)];
For more information, see DebuggableAttribute.
