When writing an API framework, it’s good practice to throw appropriate framework exceptions. I have several extended application exceptions in my rule engine framework. When executing all unit tests, or just stepping through the development code, I would see hundred of messages in Visual Studio of ‘A first chance exception of type’ …
This is just perfect behavior from my development point of view. I’m throwing these exceptions myself from the framework. I’ve made several attempts to find how to disable these messages. And finally I found the answer on Peter Macej blog:
How To Disable “A first chance exception of type” Messages in VS 2005
It was just a simple context menu option on the Output window: Uncheck the ‘Exception Messages’.
I was always trying to do this somewhere in the Debug \ Exceptions form. Well I’m glad I found it. It makes the Output windows trace less convoluted with irrelevant messages.