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Edit and continue ?

In a project I'm involved in I have to do some VB.NET. Not really my favourite language but everybody can program in VB. VB has a strange feature, when debugging you cannot edit a single character in the code editor. In C# you can type whatever you want while debugging. Don't expect the running program to update itself, but that's logical (to a C# programmer). Whidbey will have the return of “Edit and Continue” in vb. There you can edit your source and will even see the results immiadeately in the running program. Vb-people are lyrical about that. If you can either edit or run your app in the current vs.net, any change would be more than welcome.

If this is just a setting, would somebody please be so kind to tell me where to change it ?

Peter

Published Feb 11 2004, 02:50 PM by pvanooijen

Comments

Daniel O'Connell said:

Sure, its in a weird spot
Tools->Options
Click on debugger, Edit and continue, and check "Allow me to edit VB files while debugging"

# February 11, 2004 12:35 PM

Chuck snyder said:

Yep, no edit/continue with vb.net.

But just wait, the next release is supposed to have it back. It was just too hard for microsoft to implement in the currrent version

# February 11, 2004 1:10 PM

Peter van Ooijen said:

Thanks Daniel,
that's a what I call a hiding place. There they are : "alow me to edit X files for debugging". Default X is true for C# (my linguage franca) versus false for vb (that other language).
I was a little puzzled what "edit and continue" stood for as I wasn't able to edit at all :>
Very hard to implement, no doubt. But who really cares, as long as you can do your editing :?
Peter

# February 11, 2004 1:27 PM

Daniel O'Connell said:

Ya, that is a tricky little spot. I only know about it because I managed to screw my vs up one time or another and got editing C# files in the debugger turned off...its maddening I tell ya.

Of course, having it off may help keep me from editing a file in the wrong bloody VS.NET window. I'd actually like a "allow me to edit X files while debugging when X file is in the current solution" option, ;).

# February 11, 2004 1:43 PM