Project Rider - Break on Exception

Question

I can't find the option in JetBrains Project Rider to "Break on Exception". Where I would normally add an exception breakpoint in IntelliJ, I see this:

Probabilism

Rider doesn't support this feature for now. I have created an issue: youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-1974 – Saccharide

That feature is supported now. See @drew-noakes answer. – Vulture

Answer 1

Break on specific exceptions is not implemented yet. Now Rider can break only on unhandled exceptions. Will come soon.

Grappling

How do I break only on unhandled exceptions? – Probabilism

Debugger should be paused automatically when unhandled exception occurs. – Grappling

After additional testing, we may be going by different interpretations of "unhandled". I was considering an exception that is thrown back to a certain layer (in this case MVC entry point) to be unhandled: youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-2066 – Probabilism

This answer is obsolete. Rider now supports this feature. – Vulture

Answer 2

There are two ways to do this.

Break on all exceptions

Go to Run | View Breakpoints.... Click the green + icon. Select Stop on all .NET exceptions.

You can then modify the breakpoint:

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Break on a specific exception

Either use:

• Run | Stop on exception...
• Run | View Breakpoints.... Click the green + icon. Select .NET exception breakpoints.

Either approach will give you the following UI where you can search for an exception type:

To manage the settings, use the Breakpoints dialog.

Victoriavictorian

I do not have a "Stop on all .NET exceptions" option in that dropdown. – Abukir

Thanks, this fixed it for me. But I'm wondering why this is not the default behavior and we need to explicitly turn it on ? – Nambypamby

The menu options have changed but you can try selecting CLR Exception Breakpoints (and Exception Breakpoints) in the current version – Limit

Looks like the new UI looks like this – Horsecar