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Debug your .NET 8 code more efficiently

.NET 8 introduces a lot of debugging improvements. If you take a look for example at the HttpContext, you see that you get a much better debug summary than in .NET 7:

.NET 7:

.NET 8:

But that is not a feature I want to bring under your attention. After recently updating my Visual Studio version, I noticed the following announcement among the list of new Visual Studio features:

That is great news! This means that you can debug your .NET 8 applications without a big performance impact on the rest of your code.

The only thing we need to do is to disable the Just My Code option in Visual Studio:


If we now try to debug a referenced release binary, only the relevant parts are decompiled without impacting the other code:

More information

Debugging Enhancements in .NET 8 - .NET Blog (microsoft.com)

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