C++/CLI mixed mode debugging hangs (Frequently)

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I am facing a process hang problem while debugging in mixed mode C++/CLI with a native application. This is unbearable, almost 70% of my debugging this happens and I need to restart the process again and again.

Is there any hotfix or solution for this?

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Did you check it under different conditions? Like does it do this when debugging other programs too? Does it hang at a particular point? Do you have enough memory? etc. – jonsca
Enough memory available. it is not related with system resources. It is known issue with reported bug to MSFT regarding C++/CLI bugs. – Usman
Oh, ok. Just trying to come up with things off of the top of my head. What does their bug report say to do about it? – jonsca
VS2010 Service Pack 1 does not help with this? – Chris O
Would you share the link to the reported bug? – Matt Smith

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One thing to do is, from native code avoiding stepping into managed code. For me, that crashes my processes 100% of the time. Instead, place a breakpoint in the managed code that you want to get to. Debugging C++/CLI is awkward at best, usually flaky, though it is much improved over VS2008.

Not sure if you are running into this exact scenario.

EDIT: I have been having much better luck (in terms of stability) debugging C++/CLI on Win7, as compared with my WinXP dev machine.