Good Way to Debug Visual Studio Designer Errors

Question

Is there a good way to debug errors in the Visual Studio Designer?

In our project we have tons of UserControls and many complex forms. For the complex ones, the Designer often throws various exceptions which doesn't help much, and I was wondering if there's some nice way to figure out what has gone wrong.

The language is C#, and we're using Visual Studio 2005.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39648/good-way-to-debug-visual-studio-designer-errors

Answer 1

I've been able to debug some control designer issues by running a second instance of VS, then from your first VS instance do a "Debug -> Attach to Process" and pick "devenv".

The first VS instance is where you'll set your breakpoints. Use the second instance to load up the designer to cause the "designer" code to run.