VS2008 Debugger does not break on unhandled exception

Question

I\'m having an odd problem with my vs debugger. When running my program under the vs debugger, the debugger does not break on an unhandled exception. Instead control is re

Answer 1

When I read the answer about having two check boxes in the "Exception..." dialog, I went back and opened the dialog again. I only had one column of check boxes -- for break on "Thrown".

As it turns out, if you do not have "Enable Just My Code (Managed Only)" checked in the Debug options, the "User-Unhandled" column does not show in the "Exceptions" dialog.

I selected the "Enable Just My Code" option and verified that the "User-unhandled" checkbox on the "Exceptions" dialog was selected for all of the exception categories.

I was able to get unhandled exceptions to break into the debugger for one session. But when I came back the next day, the behavior was as before.

Metro.