“Hidden Secrets” of the Visual Studio .NET debugge

Question

As much as I generally don't like the discussion/subjective posts on SO, I have really come to appreciate the "Hidden Secrets" set of posts that people have put together. They provide a great overview of some commonly missed tools that you might now otherwise discover.

For this question I would like to explore the Visual Studio .NET debugger. What are some of the "hidden secrets" in the VS.NET debugger that you use often or recently discovered and wish you would have known long ago?

Answer 1

• The threads window, from Debug -> Windows -> Threads. You can Freeze and Thaw threads, and switch the active thread. This is awesome when debugging or replicating an issue with a multithreading application.
• You can drag & drop the yellow "Next Statement" arrow to another place. When the program resumes, it will resume execution at that statement. You can add it to the toolbar, a blue arrow called Set Next Statement, but it's not there by default.
• You can "undo" the navigation you did, like scrolling, going to another file, or jumping to a reference. The shortcut is ctrl-- (control minus.) That way you can jump into a function, examine the code there, and go back to where you were without looking.

Answer 2

You can load windbg extensions into the Visual Studio debugger and use them from the immediate window.