How to export/import breakpoints on VS 2013?

Question

I'd like to import/export breakpoints which I'm used to export(xml format) from VS 2008/2010, but can't load it from VS2013.

I remember once I upgraded to VS2013 and converted to VS2013 solution from VS2008 environment, breakpoints worked fine. I think I could save one time in VS2013, and tried to load it once I delete them all by accident. Somehow I got the error "Unable to import breakpoints". even I add breakpoints, and tried to export them but got the error "Unable to export breakpoints" on small popup. Would you guide if you have any workaround or solution?

Answer 1

As I reset all settings and it works again as you see at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/f407c02b-1afe-45f4-a22b-92cb681b197c/how-to-exportimport-breakpoints-on-vs-2013-while-debugging?forum=vsdebug

Thank you for helping me out.

Answer 2

The answer above worked, but only for a short time, and as soon as I reset all my settings and got the breakpoints set up again, it failed soon after. The solution was to debug the application and then try saving. I do have a couple of possible mitigating factors:

1) I'm using Git (and git extensions) as my only add-in 2) I'm building and debugging as Admin in windows 8.1

You might want to try this before you nuke months of useful settings tweaks.

Answer 3

FWIW I was "unable to import breakpoints" on VS2013 just now and then remembered that I changed the startup project yesterday after saving them. When I changed startup back to the original project, the import worked fine. If you're struggling, it may be worth checking any changes at the solution/project level since the export.