Exceptions and the Debugger
The Microsoft Visual Studio debugger has fantastic support for debugging exceptions. When a process’ thread raises an exception, the operating system immediately notifies a debugger (if a debugger is attached). This notification is called a first-chance notification. Normally, the debugger responds to a first-chance notification by telling the thread to search for exception filters. If all the exception filters return EXCEPTION_CONTINUE_SEARCH, the operating system notifies the debugger again with a last-chance notification. These two notifications exist to give the software developer more control over debugging an exception.
On a per-solution basis, you use the debugger’s Exceptions dialog box (shown next) to tell the ...
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