Debugger Don't Work With Component In Design Mode

[Tom]

I have a component I'm writing. It appears that the debugger simply
doesn't work when in design mode. For example:

build the component
drop the component on a form
break points in the "New" sub don't fire
change a property
break points in the property don't fire

I've resorted to writing text out to a file to debug it. Reminds me of
mainframe Cobol debugging. The component is in the same project as the
form. This particular component inherits from the TextBox.

What am I missing?

Tom

[Rulin Hong]

Come on. You can't debug anything in Design Mode. Any debugging must be under
runtime.

[Tom]

I'm just used to the VB6 debugger. When working with a user control you
can debug design time code. By that I mean set a break point on a
Property Let then go to your test form and change that property. The
debugger stops you on that line.

Tom

Rulin Hong wrote:

Come on. You can't debug anything in Design Mode. Any debugging must be under
runtime.

[Nick Hall]

Like you I miss the old VB6 way of debugging a visual component. It just
seemed to work quite naturally.

You CAN achieve what you need to do but it's a bit messy.

What you will need to do is start up another instance of Visual Studio with
the project of your component loaded. Then go to the Debug\Processes menu
and attach the debugger to the other instance of DevEnv.exe. It's a bit
slow (as all the communication is all cross-process) but it worked OK for
the very small project I was working on :-)

Hope this helps,

Nick Hall

"Tom" <no*****@nowher e.none> wrote in message
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I'm just used to the VB6 debugger. When working with a user control you
can debug design time code. By that I mean set a break point on a Property
Let then go to your test form and change that property. The debugger stops
you on that line.

Tom

Rulin Hong wrote:

Come on. You can't debug anything in Design Mode. Any debugging must be
under runtime.

[Tom]

Cool Cool Cool. Thanks Nick. We've been struggling with debugging some
controls for weeks now. This is great.

Tom
Nick Hall wrote:

Like you I miss the old VB6 way of debugging a visual component. It just
seemed to work quite naturally.

You CAN achieve what you need to do but it's a bit messy.

What you will need to do is start up another instance of Visual Studio with
the project of your component loaded. Then go to the Debug\Processes menu
and attach the debugger to the other instance of DevEnv.exe. It's a bit
slow (as all the communication is all cross-process) but it worked OK for
the very small project I was working on :-)

Hope this helps,

Nick Hall

"Tom" <no*****@nowher e.none> wrote in message
news:On******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl...

I'm just used to the VB6 debugger. When working with a user control you
can debug design time code. By that I mean set a break point on a Property
Let then go to your test form and change that property. The debugger stops
you on that line.

Tom

Rulin Hong wrote:

Come on. You can't debug anything in Design Mode. Any debugging must be
under runtime.

[Tom]

Oops. Spoke too soon. When I try to stop on certain lines the debugger
won't. It also appears to be highlighting lines as though it were
working off of another version of the source. How do I get it to use the
source I see in front of me.

Tom

Nick Hall wrote:

Like you I miss the old VB6 way of debugging a visual component. It just
seemed to work quite naturally.

You CAN achieve what you need to do but it's a bit messy.

What you will need to do is start up another instance of Visual Studio with
the project of your component loaded. Then go to the Debug\Processes menu
and attach the debugger to the other instance of DevEnv.exe. It's a bit
slow (as all the communication is all cross-process) but it worked OK for
the very small project I was working on :-)

Hope this helps,

Nick Hall

"Tom" <no*****@nowher e.none> wrote in message
news:On******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl...

I'm just used to the VB6 debugger. When working with a user control you
can debug design time code. By that I mean set a break point on a Property
Let then go to your test form and change that property. The debugger stops
you on that line.

Tom

Rulin Hong wrote:

Come on. You can't debug anything in Design Mode. Any debugging must be
under runtime.