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Visual Studio is the worst. Ever. I was about a half hour digging into debugging my code, and I was about 8 layers deep into the API, with breakpoints to anchor me to each level. With no warning, Visual Studio crashed and I lost all my breakpoints, and I didn't know which file I left off in. I had to completely restart the debugging process. Visual Studio deserves to burn...

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    Tip, for deep debugs try trace points that write to the interactive console.

    Those are less likely to crash.

    Had the same problem with a deep recursive function that sometimes got a 200 level deep stacktrace which almost always broke the debugger.

    And no, due to the problem it solves its not very easy to reduce the stack depth.

    I believe it can be done but will require extensive refactoring of some very complex code.

    Another day ...
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    Try another IDE.

    Oh it can't debug properly? Well that's too bad. You've just burned your only IDE that does what you want.
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    @apisarenco Working and a large company, even if there was another IDE that worked, I couldn't use it
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    @compiling oh you could. But what would you use? Xamarin Studio? Tried that - bugs at every step. SharpDevelop? Haven't used it in ages. Visual Studio Code? Well I'm using that since I'm on Linux, and trust me Visual Studio is much better for C#.

    Just because once it crashed on you while you were heavily debugging, you suddenly say it's the worst or something? How long are you in this? Do you have any idea how many times I've had Eclipse crash on me? Even Sublime!

    Programs crash. All of them do.
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