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A Visual Studio extension to "alert" you when a breakpoint is hit while you're debugging - useful if you're multitasking waiting for the breakpoint to be hit!

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CodingWithCalvin/VS-BreakpointNotifier

🔴 Breakpoint Notifier

A Visual Studio extension that monitors debugging events and displays a notification when a breakpoint is hit. Perfect for when you're waiting for that breakpoint during a long-running process while catching up on YouTube videos! 🎬

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✨ Features

  • 🎯 Smart Detection - Notifies on breakpoint hits
  • 💬 Flexible Notifications - Choose between Windows toast notifications, classic message box, or both!
  • ⚙️ Configurable - Customize your notification style via Tools > Options
  • 🖥️ Multi-Architecture - Supports both x64 and ARM64 systems
  • 🚀 VS 2022 & 2026 - Compatible with Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio 2026

🔧 Configuration

Configure your preferred notification style:

  1. Go to Tools > Options
  2. Navigate to Breakpoint Notifier > General
  3. Select your Notification Style:
    • 🔔 Toast (default) - Non-intrusive Windows toast notification
    • 📦 MessageBox - Classic message box that steals focus
    • 🔔📦 Both - Get both notifications at once

🤝 Contribute

Contributions are welcome! Issues, PRs, etc. While it may seem this extension is "done", who knows what the future may hold for it? 🔮

For cloning and building this project yourself, make sure to install the Extensibility Essentials 2022 extension for Visual Studio which enables some features used by this project.

👥 Contributors

CalvinAllen MarcolinoPT


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