Visual Studio Debug in only one thread

Question

I use VS2017 to debug my C++ app. However, when I utilize single-step debug, it will switch to some thread automatically and I only want to debug one specific thread. How could I go about doing this?

Answer 1

Breakpoints

You can configure VS2017 debugger to filter only a specific thread. Follow this msdn blog to apply one to a breakpoint. You want to filter on ThreadId.

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Thread Window

Another way is through the Threads Window. Here you can view all active threads in the application.

1. Debug > Windows > Threads
2. Right click desired thread
3. Click switch to thread