How to disable exception assistant and unhandled exception popup in Visual Studio 2008 Express

Question

I am using Visual Studio 2008 Express and am writing unit tests where there are many expected unhandled exceptions. This cause numerous exception assistant popups to display

Answer 1

I'll take a guess that you're encountering one of the following:

• You're throwing a "special" exception like StackOverflowException that the runtime handles differently from other exceptions.
• Your test code creates a new thread, and on that thread an exception is thrown.