Using IL exception filters for a better debugger experience

posted by  varson (7)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Visual Studio 2005 brings with it a new technology -- Just My Code. One nice feature that comes with Just My Code is the ability to stop on exceptions that you care about, without stopping on all exceptions. Usually this just works for you because something in a library that you are using (say WinForms), is eating all the exceptions that you want to stop on. Since your code didn't handle the exception, the debugger will stop.

However, sometimes your program might want to be able to tell the debugger when to stop. It turns out that it is possible to do this by using IL exception filte