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Overlooked reason for debug step slow-down in Visual-Studio

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24 Jan 2013CPOL 61.9K   5   9
If your VS debgger is running slow and you checked out all other tips with no help - maybe you unchecked this one and forgot to recheck it after you were done.

Introduction

In this short tip I want to note a hard-to-find (for me) reason for Visual Studio slowness in debugging.

Description  

Visual Studio has a great debugger - but some things make it go really slow. I won't cover all the top google search results for this... Those tackle problem caused by slow pdb files (e.g. ones on a network drive), by managed code issues, by debug-window evaluations, by exceptions and debug/trace points etc.

It took me time to find it - but for me the slowness was caused by having Tools->Options->Debugging->General->"Require source files to exactly match the original version" unchecked. I just ticked it back and now the step-over speed is back to normal.

What's interesting is that I couldn't find a single reference to this on the web - even after finding the solution. I wonder how many people experienced this...

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Comments and Discussions

 
QuestionItems/entries in the VS [Watch] panel slowed down my debugging Pin
Mercuery19-Jun-19 15:12
Mercuery19-Jun-19 15:12 
QuestionThank you :) Pin
aggaton17-Feb-16 6:51
aggaton17-Feb-16 6:51 
QuestionMany thanks! Pin
sjaak_trekhaak7-Oct-14 1:27
sjaak_trekhaak7-Oct-14 1:27 
Question"Show threads in source" (in debug ribbon) also slows down debugging in VS2013 Pin
FBirth9-Jan-14 8:26
FBirth9-Jan-14 8:26 
GeneralGreat find !! Pin
MrDRamos3-Oct-13 8:44
MrDRamos3-Oct-13 8:44 
GeneralRe: Great find !! Pin
Itai Basel5-Oct-13 9:16
Itai Basel5-Oct-13 9:16 
Welcome, happy to see it helped Smile | :)

Yours,
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Itai
QuestionThank you for sharing Pin
Stefan_Lang20-Feb-13 22:15
Stefan_Lang20-Feb-13 22:15 
Questionwhere is this setting? Pin
Joseph Ortiz27-Dec-12 10:12
Joseph Ortiz27-Dec-12 10:12 
AnswerRe: where is this setting? Pin
Itai Basel27-Dec-12 18:37
Itai Basel27-Dec-12 18:37 

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