Visual Studio breakpoints break in the wrong source file (or multiple files simultaneously) if multiple files have the same name

Question

In a team project I\'m working on, setting a breakpoint in a file (say IdeasController.cs) will lead to erratic debugger behaviour if there\'s another file with

Answer 1

It happened to me (in VS 2008) to have two child breakpoint with the same memory address and the same associated file. Those breakpoints were spawned at a certain time during the running of the process.

I noticed that I had duplicated .dll files in my project folders, and resolved removing the duplicated .dll, while keeping only one .dll per name in the debugging folder structure. (As example in my case I had /bin/Example.dll and /bin/Plug-in/Example.dll both present under my debug folder structure).