Why can I not enable breakpoints in Visual Studio 2005?

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Why can I not enable breakpoints in Visual Studio 2005?

I have seen that sometimes breakpoints cannot be enabled in Visual Studio, they appear as empty circles, with a warning sign when enabled. This icon change is all the information VS gives.

Particularly I'm suffering that in a Windows CE 6.0 project where I cannot enable any breakpoint in any of the sub-projects or in the OS design. The target platform in this project is a Vortex x86 embedded board, I use KITL for remote debugging.

How can I retrieve more information about what is happening? Is it not possible to use breakpoints in my case?

Are you running/compiling a debuggable version of your projects - I seem to remeber if there were no symbols loaded then this was the casE?

Jim 2009-10-20 14:00:08

Yes, I'm compiling for debug. .pdb files are also created. Should I check something else?

Jaime Soriano 2009-10-20 14:19:46

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The hollow circles with the yellow warning sign are OK. The breakpoint should instantiate once the module that holds that breakpoint loads.
This of course happens in a debug image only.

Shaihi 2009-10-20 14:01:46

Yes, I have tried to ignore the emptiness of the circles, but no luck...

Jaime Soriano 2009-10-20 14:28:26

Did you try to put a breakpoint using DebugBreak() explicitly?

Shaihi 2009-10-20 14:31:44

Ok, as you said, the hollow circles were ok, I finally have the breakpoints working enabling the kernel debugger (IMGNODEBUGGER=1) and running the application from the Target->Run Programs... dialog.

Jaime Soriano 2009-10-20 15:30:42

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