How to disable exception assistant and unhandled exception popup in Visual Studio 2008 Express

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jrupe picture jrupe · Feb 1, 2010 · Viewed 14.3k times · Source

I am using Visual Studio 2008 Express and am writing unit tests where there are many expected unhandled exceptions. This cause numerous exception assistant popups to display when running these tests in the debugger.

I have disabled the exception assistant in the VS options, but a different unhandled exception dialog pops up instead. I know it is possible to get rid of these with Visual Studio Professional, but how do you do this with the express edition?

By the way, I am using Assert.Throws instead of the ExpectedException attribute (NUnit), which causes this, but I want to use the Assert.Throws instead. Thanks!

Answer

Alconja picture Alconja · Feb 1, 2010

In the Debug menu, go to Exceptions (Ctrl+Alt+E). From here you can tell the debugger not to break when an exception is thrown. Just uncheck all the boxes for the lazy option, or go digging for the specific exceptions you don't want it to break on.

Note however, that this may not be what you want to happen under normal debugging situations, so don't forget to turn it back on later if you're trying to debug something & want to find the exception.

Edit: My apologies, even though it's written several times in the question (including the title), I failed to notice you were talking about the express edition... teach me for skim reading the question. Not sure if the above works or not in express edition, so it might still be worth a try.

Edit 2: Ok, looks like the Exceptions dialog is still available in express edition.

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