Inconsistent behaviour while debugging and executing without debugging

Question

I am writing a small windows service using .net framework 3.5 and its exibiting a wierd behaviour. The code gets stuck on

        using (OracleConnection con = new OracleConnection("Data Source=abc;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=xyz;Password=xyz;Unicode=True"))
        {

. . .

however when I debug it by attaching debugger to the service its working fine. Absoulutly clueless on this.

Answer 1

just a guess, have you put a breakpoint on that line and are you running the exe compiled in debug mode? i remeber a colleague , many years ago, being drived crazy because he execute an exe built with option debug instead of release which stopped on breakpoint. As i said this just a guess, maybe its not valid for lastes .net and vs version