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Breakpoints (Visual Studio SDK)

There are three types of breakpoints: pending, bound, and error.

A pending breakpoint:

  • Is an abstraction that contains all the information needed to bind a breakpoint to one or more code contexts in one or more programs. Each time a program being debugged cause code to load, the debug engine checks all pending breakpoints to see if they can be bound.

    A pending breakpoint itself never binds to code, but rather collects and is said to contain all the bound breakpoints that it generates.

  • Is represented by an IDebugPendingBreakpoint2 interface.

A bound breakpoint:

  • Is an abstraction for a breakpoint associated with or bound to a single code context. Each bound breakpoint is generated in response to a pending breakpoint. A pending breakpoint can, however, generate more than one bound breakpoint.

    When code is unloaded, a bound breakpoint can be unbound and discarded.

  • Is represented by an IDebugBoundBreakpoint2 interface.

An error breakpoint:

  • Is an abstraction for describing an error in attempting to bind a pending breakpoint to a code context. An error breakpoint describes either an error in ___location or in the breakpoint expression itself. For more information, see Binding Breakpoints.

    The breakpoint error can be either an error or a warning.

  • Is represented by an IDebugErrorBreakpoint2 interface.

See Also

Reference

IDebugBoundBreakpoint2

IDebugPendingBreakpoint2

IDebugErrorBreakpoint2

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Debugger Concepts

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