I'm trying to track down a bug that occurs when I click a particular element on an aspx page...
In the past I've had to track down the class that handles that particular event and put a break point on the line that I think should be hit. Often it takes me several tries before I finally find the correct class....especially if the class is a user control buried somewhere...
So it's left me wondering if there is any way to get Visual Studio to break at the next line of code executed after I click an element (say a button) on an aspx page. I know there is a way to break on any exception that is thrown so I'm thinking maybe there is something similar that could help me.
If this sort of feature isn't a possibility, perhaps someone could suggest a better way for me to quickly find the class I want to debug...
Have you tried the Debug > Break All ("pause") button? (Ctrl+Break)
It'll usually break somewhere pretty low on the stack, like at Show() for your main form in a WinForms app, but if you then Step Into to get past that, it'll often work pretty well for this sort of thing.
Are you looking for the Step Into (F11)
or Step Over (F10)
?
-- Edit
Do you also know about the Call Stack
window? It can help you determine your location, and what is happening.
Conditional Breakpoints may be your answer. You can set them were you think your code is breaking and they will only halt when the condition is satisfied.
Debug -> Exceptions
Check thrown for the CLR Exceptions.
EDIT
The odds are you are having a CLR exception. Using this method the debugger will always break when an exception occurs. This is very convenient compared to reading the stack trace.