Enable Exception Assistant option missing from VS2012 Express For Desktop by omron

basically, they intentionally removed a feature from the free version so that it's that much more inconvenient for you unless you pay. Which, since you haven't bought it already, you probably won't, so there's really no reason for it, other than they just felt like doing so.

Instead of the "Exception Assistant" in VS2012 Express For Desktop there seems to be a model dialog pop-up. If we can't get the "Exception Assistant" can we at least get rid of this very annoying pop-up somehow?

Hi Marc.

Thanks for answer.
I guess I can get used to using the watch window instead.

But it was a nice feature and I hope you will include it in an update soon.

Hello omron,

Thank you for your feedback. You are correct that we intentionally removed the exception assistant from the WDX sku for VS 2012. In 2012, pro and above are required for this functionality. You should be able to view the exception information in the watch window including the inner exception.

We'll take your feedback and look into possibly adding this dialog back into the express skus in a future release but we have no plans of changing this for 2012 at this time.

Marc Paine
Visual Studio Debugger QA Lead

Thanks for your feedback.

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