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Did you know… You can set a breakpoint by clicking in the indicator margin - #260

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Ah, time to get up and stretch.  We’re in a new series, and it’s all about debugging.

Let’s start off with the very basics.  I know the majority of you already know this, but remember someone probably had to show you how to do this at some point.  So, this is for all of you new to Visual Studio and/or coding and haven’t seen this.

You can set a breakpoint on any applicable line by clicking in the indicator margin, as illustrated

Set breakpoint via indicator margin

and clicking here will insert the breakpoint.

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  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2008
    @Justin: You can enable "the ..." by typing Ctrl+R+W, which simply turns on the display of whitespace.

  • Anonymous
    July 17, 2008
    How to turn off the "..." after turns on the disply of whitespace?

  • Anonymous
    July 17, 2008
    The Ctrl+R+W shortcut is a toggle, i.e. retype it to turn display of whitespace from of to on and vice versa.