Visual Studio Debug does not stop when i close the form that i write in C#. How can i stop debug process when i close form. I added Application.Exit() method in the form closing event but it didn't work.
Thank you.
Try this from here
If (System.Windows.Forms.Application.MessageLoop)
{
// Use this since we are a WinForms app
System.Windows.Forms.Application.Exit()
}
Else
{
// Use this since we are a console app
System.Environment.Exit(1)
}
EDIT:
If there are running infinite threads then do
Thread myThread = new Thread(...);
myThread.IsBackground = true; //set your running thread to background
myThread.Start(...);
And you can see how to? from here
Well this will be four years too late, however, I thought I'd post this for anyone else who runs into this issue (like I just did), sorry in advance if this is pretty basic, I'm fairly new to C# so this threw me for a bit.
I had the same issue as OP where, in my FormClosing event, neither Application.Exit() or Environment.Exit(0) would end the debugger.
The thing I found was looking at the reference count above my FormClosing event, it was showing '0 references'. I had just copied and pasted the closing event from another forum so there was no event handler to actually handle the event I had created/copied.
One easy way to resolve this (besides not copy and pasting code) was to create the event handler:
First go to the 'Form1.cs [Design]' tab
Navigate to the 'Properties' box
Click on 'Events'
Find 'FormClosing' and double click that
If you had the same issue you should now be able to see that there is at least 1 reference to the event. Now when you close the form it should also stop the debugger.
I landed on this question because VS was not stopping when a debugged application was shut down.
One way to see what might be causing the ide to hang is to click on pause and on the 'Debug Location' toolbar view any threads that are still running. For me I noticed that there was still a RabbitMq context that was not disposed of. So this was the clue i needed.
After I made the code change, VS now stops it debugging session once the application exits.
I know this is not a solution that you might be expecting but finding out why applications are not exiting properly or still keeping background processes alive is a very tricky subject. The active threads drop down is the best place to look imho.
Another possibility is, that your process runs in an exception which isn´t handled correctly. I used to show exception messages in self-build dialogs, but forgot to show the created window in one case. So the program ran into the exception, created the window but just didn´t show any sign of it... so the process kept running even when I closed the application.
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When I add Application.Quit(), or Form.Close(), and try running the program with Debugging, the debugging starts, but the Application doesn't. I asked this question yesterday. Visual studio debugging starts but application doesn't. And it is a continuation of that question. The process starts in the Task Manager. Its not being caught by my Antivirus.
I can save my project in a state where it is working, add Application.Quit(), start Debugging, and the program wont start. If I comment //Application.Quit, so it was the exact same project when it was saved, it still won't start. The only way to fix it, is to exclude the form that has Application.Quit() from the project. Then it starts working again. If I add the form back, the problem comes back.
I looked at how to use it properly https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157894(v=vs.110).aspx. I have the FormClosing Event with e.Cancel. I have also tried closing the form Mainform.Close(); and Environment.Close(). All with the same results. I don't believe that I'm coding it wrong. There are no errors. But I'm at a loss as to why. It might be my computer. Or I might have to give up on having a warning box before closing. Although ultimately, I would like to have that.
In FormClosing Event if you set e.Cancel = true the application will not be closed anyway.
You should use some conditions for e.Cancel = true.
Declare a flag parameter and set it before Application.Quit() and in FormClosing Event check if the flag is true, then do not set e.Cancel = true
I'm just starting out with MonoMac in Xamarin Studio, and I've run into the strangest problem:
I a window with an NSButton and a NSTextField on it. By this point I've cut out the event handler on the button, so it doesn't DO anything, except highlight when I click it. The button creation code looks like this:
nsButton = new NSButton(new System.Drawing.RectangleF(0, 0, 100, 100));
nsButton.BezelStyle = NSBezelStyle.RoundRect;
nsButton.Font = NSFont.SystemFontOfSize(
NSFont.SystemFontSizeForControlSize(NSControlSize.Regular));
nsButton.StringValue = text;
...and then it gets added to the window like so:
nsView.AddSubview(control.Handle as NSView);
(because in this part of the code, control.Handle is typed as object, and nsView is the main view on the window).
All runs and works fine at first. But, if I click repeatedly on that button, eventually the window just closes. No error, no exception, and the app itself doesn't quit; menus continue to respond and cheerfully log messages when I use them. But the window is simply -- gone.
It's extremely repeatable: it happens after 21 clicks. If I add an event handler that updates the NSTextField (e.g. hello.Caption="Foo";), then it happens after 19 clicks. It doesn't matter whether I click fast or slow; it's always the same number of clicks. Note that there is no code in the project to close the window, and the window doesn't even have a close box; I know of no legitimate way to close it short of quitting the app.
I am baffled here, and don't know how to debug this further. Does Xamarin have some sort of evaluation limit that closes your windows after so-many events? Is it a framework bug? Any insight will be greatly appreciated.
But, if I click repeatedly on that button, eventually the window just
closes. No error, no exception, and the app itself doesn't quit; menus
continue to respond and cheerfully log messages when I use them. But
the window is simply -- gone.
This "disappearing without a trace" sometimes occurs when an application crashes in native code badly enough. This can occur due to bugs in the binding code or mistakes made in calling the native APIs that corrupt internal cocoa state. I believe you are using MonoMac, and that this particular issue has been fixed in Xamarin.Mac.
You can sometimes get more information from the output window or by attaching lldb to your process.
This turned out to be the same issue as this one, in a slightly different guise.
In short, I wasn't keeping a reference to the NSWindow object, but instead was letting it go out of scope. So the GUI window would stick around for a while, but eventually (after some number of events or other code creating behind-the-scenes garbage) it is noticed and disposed of by the garbage collector. The window is then torn down.
It's all perfectly reasonable once you think of it, and happens under both Xamarin and MonoMac (just at slightly different times).
The simple solution, of course, is to retain a reference to the window until you're truly done with it. Problem solved!
(And yes, I feel a bit sheepish, but hopefully this question will get found by future Mac C# developers, and save them some grief.)
When I run my code within VS, when I enter certain methods, upon ending the application (closing the form) been debugged, VS does not end the debug session automatically forcing me to end it manually.
This doesn't always happen, the results are consistent with certain windows / classes loaded when the application is run within VS.
I want to know why this may be, I'm assuming its an indication of a file not been closed in my managed code or 'something' like that.
Why might this occur and how can I trace and fix it?
This would happen if your code keeps running after closing the window.
Pause the debugger after closing the window to find out what it's doing, then modify the code so that it stops running when you close the window.
On Debug menu, click "Detach All".
Hope that helps!
EDIT
Follow, SLak's advice, as that will go after the problem. My solution may only fix the symptom. I will leave the answer here just in case it is helpful to you though.
Good luck!
I'm experiencing a annoying issue in my .NET Windows Forms application.
I have a MainForm (A) and a progress form (B) that is shown modal when I start a long operation.
When the operation finishes, and B is closed, it seems that the window that is behind my application (is occurs usually with Skype) is brought to front during few milliseconds and, then my application is activated normally.
Is only a small flickering, but annoying. Here I write some tips that could help to find the solution:
I called showDialog without IWin32Window, but I added it without success result.
I closed B using Close(), then I tried Hide() and then Close() but did not help.
The code that executes the ShowDialog() is invoked from the UI thread, so it don't seem to be a threading issue.
Any clue would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I was experiencing these same symptoms and it was driving me crazy.
I finally discovered the problem was that i was calling this.Dispose() instead of this.Close() to close the modal window I'm not sure why I called this.Dispose() in the first place.
After switching methods, the problem went away.
I realize that this thread is old and this is not the cause of your problem, i am just trying to help anyone else who made the same mistake that I did.
Check if you DON'T call Hide or Close. The only way to avoid flickering is DialogResult.
Upd:
this.DialogResult = DialogResult.Ok
Check handlers OnFormClosing and etc. They might containt wrong method call.
The little trick is to set Owner explicitly
_dialog.Owner = this;
_dialog.ShowDialog();
People who are editing the post - _dialog.ShowDialog(this) works a bit different.
Look at owner = ((Control) owner).TopLevelControlInternal; in decompiled code
Edited by someone:
Or...
_dialog.ShowDialog(this);
These calls are identical according to MSDN
Do not call Close for modal window (it will not be disposed and memory leak is guaranteed)
Set this.DialogResult = DialogResult.OK
Call Dispose() from the parent, NEVER from the form you are closing
Remember of disposing all of your components holding by the form IContainer in Dispose(bool) (VS Designer implementation of Dispose(bool) is usually not enough not to have memory leaks)
In my case I was also facing the same issue in my VB.Net winform application but a bit different scenario.
I was having a user control which opens up a dialog using showdialog() say dialog1 and on filling some data it hides dialog1 and opens up dialog2 using showdialog() again.
In the process of hiding dialog1 and showing dialog2 flickering occurs and it shows the window at background for a moment.
After trying so many solutions and workarounds none work for me. I found one workaround myself which might help others.
To hide dialog1 I was using Me.Hide(), The solution is to change the opacity of form instead of calling Hide() method.
'Me.Hide()
Me.Opacity = 0
After this workaround the application works fine without any flickering issue.
PS: The above code lines are in VB.Net but enough for a .Net winform application developer to get the idea for fixing this issue.
Okay,
it sounds like
In the main window a user starts a long operation
You display a progress modal window
Operation completes you close the progress window
Your main window doesn't display immediately. Instead something behind it shows through for a second or less.
Your main window completes it's redraw operation and is 100% visible.
This happens more often when you have applications such as Skype running.
If that's the case there are many different possible causes. For example, your video drivers might have a bug in them causing delays in off screen compositing under certain conditions.
The system itself might even be experiencing a blocking CPU operation at the moment. This is something that could be caused by the time it takes your code to close the dialog and go back to the main form. You might look to see if there is anything else you are doing between the time the progress closes and you return UI control back to the user.
The system might simply be memory constrained and your operation causes a huge swap to disk. When the operation completes, windows might be notified that it needs to pull previously swapped memory from disk and shove it back into RAM, causing a delay.
I'd run the app with Nothing else loaded but task manager or resource monitor and see what happens. If the problem no longer occurs, then look into adding more RAM to your machine and/or ignore it.
If it's still occuring, and your memory usage leaves nearly nothing left then, again, add RAM or ignore.
If it's still occuring but memory usage is low, investigate your code to see what you are doing between the closing of the dialog and release of control of the main window back to the user.
You could try double buffering your form with this example:
Tends to eliminate flicker on screen updates.
I've "inherited" a legacy C#/C++ program that I have to debug. The current problem is that the .exe won't stop after I close the program, i.e. it still shows up in Task Manager.
This is a problem, because it won't let me restart the program, because only one instance can run. Often killing the process doesn't work; I'm forced to reboot.
I was under the impression that when the main program stopped, all the child threads were also supposed to stop, but I may be wrong.
Q: What would cause a .exe to not stop?
Child threads will not stop automatically unless they have been specifically set as background threads (i.e., with thread.IsBackground = true).
Edit: It is also possible that the main thread isn't terminating when the form is closed (i.e., there's other code that is set to run after close that isn't completing).
I find it useful to attach to the running process with the debugger and press the pause button. After that I would inspect the Threads window and see what the stack trace is doing for each of the executing threads. The threads window is hidden by default. Here is more information about how to show it and use it:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w15yf86f.aspx
My guess would be that all threads aren't stopped. Usually you can end task the program and it will stop though. Maybe one thread has hung on to a system resource that's more difficult to release.
If you can get a debug build, run the program and after the program is "exited", hit the pause button in the debug window. At that point you can look through the threads and find out which one is hung. To help, you should name your threads when they get created (it's an extra parameter in the .Start function)
You may want to look into process explorer. It makes it easier to shut down the programs and it can view the threads of the program and potentially point you in the right direction of where to make the the program behave.
At the most frundamental level, there is an infinite loop somewhere.
Is the startup form the one that's being closed to exit the application? If it isn't you need to put Application.Exit() or Environment.Exit() in the form.closed event of the form that is closing last.