Thread: How to use a simple breakpoint

Originally Posted by NewbGuy

Hi I am trying to do something which should be very simple yet I can't get it to work.

I have visual studio 2005 here, and I am trying to use breakpoints in my program.

I put some breakpoints on some lines I wanted the program to stop at, then hit F5 to rebuild the project and run it, but it doesn't stop at my breakpoints.

At first it was saying something about needing symbols, so I went Tools->Options->Debug and added this URL: Symbol information to the symbols area. I got a little screen with the TOS or something and tried again and it still doesn't work.

What am I doing wrong here? I can't believe I can't get this to work.

That symbol path is meaningless for your purposes. People use that for debugging Windows itself.

You need to switch your Project Configuration to DEBUG before you can use breakpoints.

Originally Posted by NewbGuy

Is that the drop down beside the green play button on the main menu? It says debug already.

Then perhaps your breakpoint is in a piece of code that isn't being run?

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Mats