Disabling and Deleting Breakpoints

When you disable a breakpoint, all the breakpoint settings remain defined, but the breakpoint is not triggered when your program is run; your program will not stop on a disabled breakpoint. Disabling a breakpoint is useful if you have defined a breakpoint that you don't need to use now, but might need to use at a later time.

Disabling Breakpoints

Use any of the following methods to disable a breakpoint:

In the source editor, right-click the line of code with the breakpoint and choose Disable Breakpoint from the source editor context menu.
To disable a breakpoint, open the Breakpoints window and select the breakpoint you want to disable. You can now right-click, and choose Disable Breakpoint.
To disable a group of breakpoints in the Breakpoints window, right-click a breakpoint group and choose Disable Group in the context menu.
To disable all current breakpoints, in the Breakpoints window, right-click and choose Disable All.
To enable a breakpoint that is disabled, right-click the disabled breakpoint in the Breakpoints window, and choose Enable Breakpoint .
To enable all breakpoints that have been set, right-click in the Breakpoints window, and choose Enable All .
To enable a group of breakpoints, right-click a breakpoint group in the Breakpoints window, and choose Enable Group .

Deleting breakpoints

When you no longer need to examine the code at a breakpoint location, you can delete the breakpoint. You can delete breakpoints using either the source editor or in the Breakpoints window:

Use any of the following methods to delete breakpoints:

In the left margin of the source editor, click the breakpoint you want to delete.
In the source editor, right-click in the line of code, and choose Toggle Breakpoint from the context menu or press F5 .
From the Breakpoints window, highlight the breakpoint you want to remove, then choose Remove Breakpoint from the context menu. Alternatively, you can press Delete on your keyboard.
To delete all currently set breakpoints, select Remove All from the context menu.

Caution: You cannot undelete a breakpoint.