Is there any way of detecting that a debugger is running in memory?
and here comes the on Form Load pseudocode.
if debugger.IsRunning then
Application.exit
end if
Edit: The original title was "Detecting an in memory debugger"
Is there any way of detecting that a debugger is running in memory?
and here comes the on Form Load pseudocode.
if debugger.IsRunning then
Application.exit
end if
Edit: The original title was "Detecting an in memory debugger"
Try the following
if ( System.Diagnostics.Debugger.IsAttached ) {
...
}
Two things to keep in mind before using this to close an application running in the debugger:
Now, to be of more use, here's how to use this detection to keep func eval in the debugger from changing your program state if you have a cache a lazily evaluated property for performance reasons.
private object _calculatedProperty;
public object SomeCalculatedProperty
{
get
{
if (_calculatedProperty == null)
{
object property = /*calculate property*/;
if (System.Diagnostics.Debugger.IsAttached)
return property;
_calculatedProperty = property;
}
return _calculatedProperty;
}
}
I've also used this variant at times to ensure my debugger step-through doesn't skip the evaluation:
private object _calculatedProperty;
public object SomeCalculatedProperty
{
get
{
bool debuggerAttached = System.Diagnostics.Debugger.IsAttached;
if (_calculatedProperty == null || debuggerAttached)
{
object property = /*calculate property*/;
if (debuggerAttached)
return property;
_calculatedProperty = property;
}
return _calculatedProperty;
}
}