Mastering Visual Studio 2017

Adding actions to breakpoints

You can specify some actions to a breakpoint to log a message to the output window or run a specific function when the breakpoint reaches. This is generally done to trace an execution log and print various values at different moments of the process.

To add actions to a breakpoint, right click on the red circle on the left-hand side bar and click on Actions... from the context menu that pops up in the screen:

This will open the Breakpoint settings dialog on screen having the Actions checkbox as checked. In the input box, either you can enter the name of the function that you want to execute for tracing or enter ...