How to permanently remove a breakpoint in Visual Studio 2005 /2008 (ASP.NET, C#)

Question

Often, when I have a breakpoint on some line in Visual Studio, The program will run and stop there. great. I will then click the red circle (or press F9) to remove it. Obviously I don't want my program to keep stopping there. The problem is that the next time I refresh the page the breakpoint is back! The only way to permanently remove it is to open the breakpoints window and remove it there. Why does this happen and how can I change this behavior?

I have noticed that these breakpoints which keep coming back have a little plus next to them in the breakpoints window which when you click on - open up many sub lines of breakpoints. What is the deal with that?

Thanks, Adin

Answer 1

Just clear the breakpoint while the debugger is off. When you clear or add a breakpoint while debugging, the action only lasts for that debugging session.

Answer 2

Helpful Key combo: to permanently delete all breakpoints, press CTRL + SHIFT + F9.

Answer 3

The plus in the breakpoints window is there when one user-supplied breakpoint binds in multiple places. This can happen when a single file is loaded multiple times in the same debugging session, for example. The + lets you look at each of the places it bound.

@Joel: modifying breakpoints during a debugging session does not make your change temporary, although there are circumstances (like the original question), where the actual behavior can be non-obvious.

Answer 4

I've post suggestion to MS to fix it: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=391642