All of a sudden I'm getting a ContextSwitchDeadlock error when debugging. I
googled it and there are some suggestions to go to the Debug menu, choose
Exceptions, blah blah blah

There is no Exceptions submenu on my debug menu. I have vs2005 professional
edition.

What can I do to get rid of this. I can't debug anymore

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Regards,
Gary Blakely

Hi Gary,

Bryan's reply shows the steps of retrieving "Exceptions..." menu item
through VS2005 IDE menu customization dialog. If you want to understand why
debugger sometimes pops up bogus ContextSwitchDeadLock MDA, please refer to
the CLR debugging service developer Mike Stall's blog entry below:
"Why you sometimes get a bogus ContextSwitchDeadLock MDA under the debugger"
http://blogs.msdn.com/jmstall/archive/2005/11/11/ContextSwitchDeadLock.aspx

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
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You can add the Exceptions menu item to your Debug menu by clicking
Tools-Customize. Choose Debug from the categories list and drag
Exceptions... from the commands list to wherever you want it (toolbar or
menu).

Then, close the dialog, click Exceptions and uncheck
ContextSwitchDeadlock under Managed Debugging Assistants.

Most of the MDA stuff gets really annoying if you do anything fancy like
mixed-mode debugging or Visual Studio Add-Ins.

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Bryan Phillips
MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE
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