Re: A first chance exception of type 'System.InvalidProgramException' when adding breakpoints for debugging

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On Mon, 05 May 2008 18:33:59 -0700, Pixel.to.life <pixel.to.life@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Pete. Are you an MVP with Microsoft? Because the only useful
information I found in your reply was in ~10% of the text. Rest all I
could throw away. Hah:-)

You could, assuming you are happy getting a reputation as someone not worth helping. People asking for free help and who are impatient are often ignored outright.

Anyways, I appreciate what you suggest, but I am still willing to
understand the problem rather than trying hasty system un/re-installs.

If a reinstall fixes the problem, then there's nothing to "understand". It's a simple matter of some component in the various layers that got corrupted. You could waste a lot of time tracking down exactly what got corrupted, and not come to any useful conclusion except that the fix is to uninstall and reinstall.

On the other hand, if you uninstall and reinstall, all the way down to a clean OS reinstall, and the problem persists then you can confidently start investigating more thoroughly, knowing that the effort will be rewarded with an answer to a consistently reproducible problem.

I doubt you'll get that far, but at least if you do you'll know that you're not wasting your time.

I am running PEVerify.exe on the binary to see if it points out any
glitches in the metadata / intermediate assembly first.

And if there are, then what? If there's some problem with the compiled assembly, all that tells you is that whatever's corrupted is leading to a corrupted assembly.

Btw a thread persists with same question on MSDN forum for Csharp.. no
takers yet.

The fact that no one has a specific answer there should be a strong indication that this isn't a common problem, and that you're unlikely to find anyone here with any better answer than that given already.

Pete
.

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