Visual Studio Interrupt Solutions or Relationships

Question

I use a conditional breakpoint to determine when a variable is C# DateTimegreater than a certain time. This breakpoint will be checked approximately 50,000 times during the course.

my conditional breakpoint looks like this:

quote.Time > new DateTime(2014,2,4,3,59,0)

Without this conditional breakpoint, my test run takes about 15 seconds. A conditional breakpoint takes 45 minutes.

Is there anything I can do to speed this up without modifying the code I'm debugging to add a statement or conditional?

In any case, to calculate the DateTime variable only once? Or is it more of an architectural problem with how conditional breakpoints are implemented in the IDE?

Answer 1

Obviously, conditional breakpoints are very slow - this is a known issue. See: http://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=en-US&q=visual+studio+conditional+breakpoint+slow

Since I know how many times my function will be called deterministic modeling, I ended up using the visual studio function Hit Count.

This allowed me not to crack the code with an operator ifand faster than iteration if my interrupt condition changed.

Answer 2

why don't you stop using a conditional breakpoint and change the code until you debug it. so the code will look something like this:

int dummyx = 0;
if (quote.Time > new DateTime (2014,2,4,3,59,0 )
{

dummyx++; // put normal break point here!

}

This will work much faster.

Answer 3

Just for debugging purposes, I would say create a new if statement and a dummy variable (e.g. int i = 0;) and set a breakpoint on this line. Then just go in / step through the rest of the code. Just for testing, you can always simply delete these 1-2 lines of code after testing.

An if statement (logically) containing:  if (quote.Time > new DateTime(2014,2,4,3,59,0)) { int i=0; }