Can I make my Form visible during a debug session?

Jerry Spence1

One of the things I have always missed from VB6 days is that whilst I am
debugging code which writes to my form, I could always task switch to the
form and see the results as I went. With VB.Net you just get an hour glass
over a completely blank screen. I was hoping the VB 2005 would be better but
it isn't. Why is this? Why can't it be like it was in VB6 days?

-Jerry

Jul 15 '06 #1

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Chris

Jerry Spence1 wrote:

One of the things I have always missed from VB6 days is that whilst I am
debugging code which writes to my form, I could always task switch to the
form and see the results as I went. With VB.Net you just get an hour glass
over a completely blank screen. I was hoping the VB 2005 would be better but
it isn't. Why is this? Why can't it be like it was in VB6 days?

-Jerry

You can not see the screen because since you are in debug mode and the
code has stopped the program can not run the Paint code.

Chris

Jul 15 '06 #2

Jerry Spence1

So why did it work in VB6? What is different?

-Jerry

"Chris" <no@spam.comwrote in message
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Jerry Spence1 wrote:
>One of the things I have always missed from VB6 days is that whilst I am
debugging code which writes to my form, I could always task switch to the
form and see the results as I went. With VB.Net you just get an hour
glass over a completely blank screen. I was hoping the VB 2005 would be
better but it isn't. Why is this? Why can't it be like it was in VB6
days?

-Jerry

You can not see the screen because since you are in debug mode and the
code has stopped the program can not run the Paint code.

Chris

Jul 15 '06 #3

Chris

Jerry Spence1 wrote:

So why did it work in VB6? What is different?

-Jerry

"Chris" <no@spam.comwrote in message
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>Jerry Spence1 wrote:
>>One of the things I have always missed from VB6 days is that whilst I am
debugging code which writes to my form, I could always task switch to the
form and see the results as I went. With VB.Net you just get an hour
glass over a completely blank screen. I was hoping the VB 2005 would be
better but it isn't. Why is this? Why can't it be like it was in VB6
days?

-Jerry
You can not see the screen because since you are in debug mode and the
code has stopped the program can not run the Paint code.

Chris

VB6 didn't allow you to do painting yourself. You can override the
onpaint event or override the paint method and do whatever you want in
them. In vb6 you didn't have this control, so the system would still
run the paint events even if debug. Now your thread that is stopped
can't run the painting.

chris

Jul 15 '06 #4

Jerry Spence1

"Chris" <no@spam.comwrote in message
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Jerry Spence1 wrote:
>So why did it work in VB6? What is different?

-Jerry

"Chris" <no@spam.comwrote in message
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>>Jerry Spence1 wrote:
One of the things I have always missed from VB6 days is that whilst I
am debugging code which writes to my form, I could always task switch
to the form and see the results as I went. With VB.Net you just get an
hour glass over a completely blank screen. I was hoping the VB 2005
would be better but it isn't. Why is this? Why can't it be like it was
in VB6 days?

-Jerry
You can not see the screen because since you are in debug mode and the
code has stopped the program can not run the Paint code.

Chris

VB6 didn't allow you to do painting yourself. You can override the
onpaint event or override the paint method and do whatever you want in
them. In vb6 you didn't have this control, so the system would still run
the paint events even if debug. Now your thread that is stopped can't run
the painting.

chris

Chris

>You can override the onpaint event or override the paint method and do
whatever you want in them

So can I make it behave as it did in the VB6 days?

-Jerry

Jul 16 '06 #5

Greg

"Jerry Spence1" <je**********@somewhere.comwrote in message
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One of the things I have always missed from VB6 days is that whilst I am
debugging code which writes to my form, I could always task switch to the
form and see the results as I went. With VB.Net you just get an hour glass
over a completely blank screen. I was hoping the VB 2005 would be better
but it isn't. Why is this? Why can't it be like it was in VB6 days?

-Jerry

If you've stopped the code via a breakpoint then resize your code form and
the exe form so that they both appear on your screen at the same time
without overlapping. Your exe form will be blank. In the code form, type
application.doevents() in the Immediate Window. Hey presto! Your exe form is
now populated.

If your code is running and the exe form is blank then just add
application.doevents() statements to your code after anything that changes
the exe form's appearance.

Cheers,
Greg.

Jul 17 '06 #6

Jerry Spence1

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"Jerry Spence1" <je**********@somewhere.comwrote in message
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>One of the things I have always missed from VB6 days is that whilst I am
debugging code which writes to my form, I could always task switch to the
form and see the results as I went. With VB.Net you just get an hour
glass over a completely blank screen. I was hoping the VB 2005 would be
better but it isn't. Why is this? Why can't it be like it was in VB6
days?

-Jerry

If you've stopped the code via a breakpoint then resize your code form and
the exe form so that they both appear on your screen at the same time
without overlapping. Your exe form will be blank. In the code form, type
application.doevents() in the Immediate Window. Hey presto! Your exe form
is now populated.

If your code is running and the exe form is blank then just add
application.doevents() statements to your code after anything that changes
the exe form's appearance.

Cheers,
Greg.

When type 'application.doevents' in the immediate window I get
'DoEvents' is not a member of 'MyApplication'

and yet the strange thing is that I can use it in my program code OK.

-Jerry

Jul 17 '06 #7

Greg

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>"Jerry Spence1" <je**********@somewhere.comwrote in message
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>>One of the things I have always missed from VB6 days is that whilst I am
debugging code which writes to my form, I could always task switch to
the form and see the results as I went. With VB.Net you just get an hour
glass over a completely blank screen. I was hoping the VB 2005 would be
better but it isn't. Why is this? Why can't it be like it was in VB6
days?

-Jerry

If you've stopped the code via a breakpoint then resize your code form
and the exe form so that they both appear on your screen at the same time
without overlapping. Your exe form will be blank. In the code form, type
application.doevents() in the Immediate Window. Hey presto! Your exe form
is now populated.

If your code is running and the exe form is blank then just add
application.doevents() statements to your code after anything that
changes the exe form's appearance.

Cheers,
Greg.

When type 'application.doevents' in the immediate window I get
'DoEvents' is not a member of 'MyApplication'

and yet the strange thing is that I can use it in my program code OK.

-Jerry

Are you including the parentheses?
Works fine for me.Try the full path:
System.Windows.Forms.Application.DoEvents()

Cheers,
Greg

Jul 18 '06 #8

Jerry Spence1

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"Greg" <Gr**@no-reply.okwrote in message
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>>"Jerry Spence1" <je**********@somewhere.comwrote in message
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One of the things I have always missed from VB6 days is that whilst I
am debugging code which writes to my form, I could always task switch
to the form and see the results as I went. With VB.Net you just get an
hour glass over a completely blank screen. I was hoping the VB 2005
would be better but it isn't. Why is this? Why can't it be like it was
in VB6 days?

-Jerry

If you've stopped the code via a breakpoint then resize your code form
and the exe form so that they both appear on your screen at the same
time without overlapping. Your exe form will be blank. In the code form,
type application.doevents() in the Immediate Window. Hey presto! Your
exe form is now populated.

If your code is running and the exe form is blank then just add
application.doevents() statements to your code after anything that
changes the exe form's appearance.

Cheers,
Greg.

When type 'application.doevents' in the immediate window I get
'DoEvents' is not a member of 'MyApplication'

and yet the strange thing is that I can use it in my program code OK.

-Jerry

Are you including the parentheses?
Works fine for me.Try the full path:
System.Windows.Forms.Application.DoEvents()

Cheers,
Greg

If I include System.Windows.Forms.Application.DoEvents() then, yes it does
take it OK. However, now I can't get to the form at all! (I'm using VB2005
BTW)

-Jerry

Jul 20 '06 #9

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