VS Arduino - First time debugging

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ardlance Newbies Offline Posts: 4 Joined: Jun 30^th, 2015	First time debugging May 31^st, 2017 at 11:58pm	Print Post
	This is my first time debugging in Visual Micro and it is not working like I expect. I have a simple LED blink program and have a breakpoint set in the main loop. The output windows says that the program is paused at line 9 which is where my breakpoint is located. The program continues to run and the output windows scrolls with the same message over and over. I assumed the program would halt at the breakpoint and I would need to press F5 to continue. I have automatic debugging on. What am I missing?


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12204 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: First time debugging Reply #1 - Jun 1^st, 2017 at 12:03am	Print Post
	Hi, Take a read of the debugger docs and you will find quite a lot of useful stuff. For example, if you add a message/watch to a breakpoint you will find the "Continue Execution" checkbox is ticked. This is because visual studio assumes you just want a trace point without break. Uncheck the "Continue Execution" checkbox and you should then be prompted with F5/continue. When the cpu is paused you will see a millis counter of how long it has been paused. There is also a menu item "vmicro>debugger>trace only" which is Off by default. When On all breakpoints will be treated as trace points, no stopping.


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ardlance Newbies Offline Posts: 4 Joined: Jun 30^th, 2015	Re: First time debugging Reply #2 - Jun 1^st, 2017 at 11:25pm	Print Post
	Okay great. I will check it out. Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Jun 1^st, 2017 at 12:03am: Hi, Take a read of the debugger docs and you will find quite a lot of useful stuff. For example, if you add a message/watch to a breakpoint you will find the "Continue Execution" checkbox is ticked. This is because visual studio assumes you just want a trace point without break. Uncheck the "Continue Execution" checkbox and you should then be prompted with F5/continue. When the cpu is paused you will see a millis counter of how long it has been paused. There is also a menu item "vmicro>debugger>trace only" which is Off by default. When On all breakpoints will be treated as trace points, no stopping.


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