Visual Studio: How to stop breakpoint hit from stealing focus?

Question

When a breakpoint is hit in Visual Studio, it steals the focus from whatever other application the programmer is

Answer 1

One workaround is to use OutputDebugString() function to output current state into the debugger output window. You just place Visual Studio in background, position the debugged program window so that the "Output" window is visible - and no focus transition ever happens.

You will perhaps want to use macros for conditional compilation so that tracing code is not included into the release builds.