Gold mine of Visual C++ tricks!
Avoid Stepping into unwanted functions while debugging.
While debugging we usually step into functions by using F11. But if the function have some CString parameters, the F11 will get into the CString constructor. This is a real headache while debugging. To avoid this, you can define a set of Step into ignorable functions in the autoexp.dat of Visual Studio.
1) The Autoexp.bat is in the following location.
<VisualStudioDir>\Common\MSDev98\Bin\AUTOEXP.DAT
2) For ignoring CString’s constructor and operator =, please add the following,
[ExecutionControl]
CString::CString=NoStepInto
CString::operator==NoStepInto
3) If you want to ignore all functions of a class then you can use,
[ExecutionControl]
CMyClass::*=NoStepInto
4) If you want to ignore all functions of a perticular namespace then you can use,
[ExecutionControl]
MyNameSpace::*=NoStepInto
[...] to be that to achieve that you used the [ExecutionControl] section in autoexp.dat, and seems it is widely believed to still hold. However, since 2003(!) the home of these setting is the registry. Since [...]