Your step-into request resulted in an automatic step-over of a property or operator

Question

I am getting the following error message while running .net 3.5 applciation

Your step-into request resulted in an automatic step-over of a property

Answer 1

As answered by other people this is an informational message from Visual Studio telling you that it could have stepped into a line of code but rather stepped over it due to current dev environment settings.

There are three ways to change this behaviour in VS2012:

• Change the settings: Tools->Options->Debugging->General->Step over properties and operators OR
• Right click on the line of code to get the context menu. Then untick: Step over properties and operators OR
• Select 'Step into Specific' in the right click context menu which will ask you which specific function you would like to step into. It will list all the properties/functions involved in the current source line.