#if !SILVERLIGHT & "Edit and Continue" issue?

Peran posted on Monday, June 15, 2009

I have started to get an issue in VS when the debugger hits a break point, I press F5 to continue (*without* making any changes to the code) and I get the following dialog.

Edit and Continue

Edits were made which cannot be compiled. Execution cannot contiune until the compile errors are fixed.

I have not made any changes and the code builds fine.  There are indications on the internet that this may be a VS bug that occurs when code is run within a conditional compilation statement. 

My code has numerous #if !SILVERLIGHT statements, and I am testing via a dotNet UI rather than a Silverlight UI.  Have any other cslalight developers come across this or have a work around?



Cheers

Peran
 

cds replied on Monday, June 15, 2009

Yes, I've come across it, and it's a major pain.

I haven't yet figured out under exactly what circumstances it occurs. What I generally do is find somewhere else in my call stack to set the breakpoint and magically that seems to fix things.

I'm sure it's a VS bug though.

Sorry I can't be much help.

Craig

Peran replied on Monday, June 22, 2009

I could not get your fix to work, but I did find a different work around; by detaching & re-attaching the debugger (Debug->Detach All; Debug->Attach To Process...) the issue did not occur for the remainder of that debug session.