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Quick Tip: How to move a breakpoint in the Visual Studio debugger

Setting a breakpoint in the Visual Studio debugger is as simple as placing your cursor on a line of code and pressing F9. However, once you've set the breakpoint, how do you move it to a different ___location since clicking on the breakpoint will delete it? One workaround is to delete the breakpoint and set a new breakpoint at the new ___location. The problem is, if you have set a bunch of options on the breakpoint, e.g. a condition, then those options will get lost in the move.

The trick to moving a breakpoint is to use the Breakpoint Location option to change the line number of the breakpoint. You can access the Location option by right-clicking on the breakpoint the you want to move and selecting "Location...", as shown below.

Breakpoint Location

On the File Breakpoint dialog, simply change the Line field to the new ___location and press [OK]. The breakpoint will move to the new ___location.

File Breakpoint dialog

Habib Heydarian.