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Visual Studio Settings

Disable Just My Code

In settings of Visual Studio, disable the Just My Code feature forever and ever. Trust us on this one, it makes the debugging experience for Observable and async/await/TPL so much better.

Enable Stop on First Chance Exceptions

This is like Rx debugging pro-tip #1:

In Visual Studio, when exceptions are thrown or end up unhandled, the debugger can help you debug these by breaking just like it breaks when a breakpoint is hit. In this blog post we will look at the different classifications of exceptions and how to configure when the debugger will break for those exceptions.

Understanding exceptions while debugging with visual studio