I ran fresh searches this morning and went (again) through all the VS 2017 Options related to debugging but I just can't figure out how to turn off breaks in Exceptions inside the .NET class libraries.
I just got another one... a NullReferenceException inside System.Web.dll and I'm prompted to load System.Web.pdb from somewhere. I tried loading the symbols for the hell of it, but it changed nothing. I really want to stop these sorts of breaks completely. There must be an option somewhere, but I can't find it. This isn't the only thing that changed on Monday morning when I sat down. Hitting F5 to run web apps now opens the app in a new tab in an existing Edge browser, and when I close the tab the debugger keeps running. Last week it used to open a new browser instance and debugging stopped when I closed the browser. I understand in the mobile world that I don't own anything and I can pick up the phone one morning and it will have completely changed colours, gestures, textures, icons and behaviour, but I don't expect this sort of thing creeping into the desktop world. It's so bad in recent years that every morning I hit the power on button on my work PC I say a mental prayer that it will boot normally and nothing will be expectedly broken. I call this new syndrome "Mondayitis", where some suddenly breaks on Monday morning. The worst case I'm still suffering from is when I found that all sound recording stopped on Monday morning back in May. I have devoted 20+ man-hours to the problem since then and asked friends and searched until my fingers bleed, but my Windows 10 work PC simply stopped recording audio. At any given time in the home/office there are multiple things wrong with multiple computers that are completely mysterious and intractable. All the care and cleanliness in the world seems to make to difference, it's like all computer hardware and software in the modern world is teetering on the edge of chaotic collapse. *Greg K (end of morning sermon)* >
