Causing VS2010 debugger to break when Debug.Assert fails

Question

Is there any way to cause Visual Studio 2010 to break while debugging when the argument of Debug.Assert evaluates to false?

Example: in my

Answer 1

It seems to work as expected for me in a console application at least: in debug builds, a dialog pops up that allows you to break into the application using the debugger, but in release builds, nothing happens. Admittedly, I just used a simplistic Debug.Assert(false);, but I don't see why that should make much of a difference. I'm running Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Ultimate.

I'd suggest that you take a close look at your build settings.

Here's the code I used:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Data;

namespace ConsoleApplication
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            System.Diagnostics.Debug.Assert(false);

            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}