Break points aspx pages

Question

How do you set a break points in server tags in .aspx pages. e.g.

<%   dim breakhere =new object() %>

The web application is running in debug mode with the <compilation debug="true" ... in the web.config. But the page says:

The break point will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document.

Is there anything else i need to set?

Answer 1

I havent tried this myself but in ASP (VBScript) you can inject a STOP statement and that will trigger the IDE to break on that line

Example

<%
STOP
Dim o as Object = new Object()
%>

HTH

Answer 2

instead of setting the breakpoint directly, you could use

<%  System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break();

    // more code here...

     %>

Maybe a better suggestion though is to not put inline code in your markup - instead put it in a method in the code-behind file, and then call that method from your markup. In your method in the code-behind, you can use the breakpoints as you normally would.