Friday, May 7, 2010

Visual Studio 2010 NoStepInto

Two things have changed with the NoStepInto feature of the native C++ debugger in VS2010 compared to VS2008 (for a general intro see here):
  • You don't have to put your rules in HKLM anymore: you might as well put them in HKCU (more precise in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0_Config\NativeDE\StepOver), which is of course much better
  • If you put =NoStepInto things will no longer work: just leave it off.
Some examples (as entered in RegEdit)
  • Name:10, Value: boost\:\:shared_ptr.*
  • Name:20, Value: std\:\:.*
Happy programming!

2 comments:

  1. Following this handy hint, we’d use:
    1) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0_Config\NativeDE\StepOver
    To add the value:
    10 = boost\:\:shared_ptr.*

    That works great for not stepping into dull/boost code.

    But only for a while! :-(
    Re-opening VS2010 seems to lose that value. For me and a coleauge at least.

    From what i can tell, if we actually put the values here:
    2) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\NativeDE\StepOver
    that unhelpful absent-mindedness will stop.

    VS copies over all the values 1) -> 2) at start-up.

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