Can I enable/disable breaking on Exceptions programmatically?

Question

I want to be able to break on Exceptions when debugging... like in Visual Studio 2008\'s Menu Debug/Exception Dialog, except my program has many valid exceptions before I get to

Answer 1

You could also use asserts instead of breakpoints. For instance, if you only want to breakpoint on the 5th iteration of a loop on the second time you call that function, you could do:

bool breakLoop = false;

...
    Work(); // Will not break on 5th iteration.
    breakLoop = true;
    Work(); // Will break on 5th iteration.
...

public void Work() {
    for(int i=0 ; i < 10 ; i++) {
        Debug.Assert (!(breakLoop && i == 5));
        ...
    }
}

So in the first call to Work, while breakLoop is false, the loop will run through without asserting, the second time through the loop will break.