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The most common causes for program or system crashes include corrupted files, corrupted Registry keys, and program incompatibility issues. The debug file may pop up on the desktop after an app or program crashes. It's not exclusive to Windows 10 system crashes.

Breakpoints are not hit when enabling Developer Instrumentation in Release mode. #5689.

Debugging means to run your code step by step in a debugging tool like Visual Studio, to find the exact point where you made a programming mistake. You then understand what corrections you need to make in your code and debugging tools often allow you to make temporary changes so you can continue running the program.

To debug a release build Open the Property Pages dialog box for the project. For details, see Set C++ compiler and build properties in Visual Studio. Click the C/C++ node.Expand Linker and click the General node.Select the Debugging node.Select the Optimization node.You can now debug your release build application.

You can now debug your release build application. To find a problem, step through the code (or use Just-In-Time debugging) until you find where the failure occurs, and then determine the incorrect parameters or code.

A debugger is a software tool that can help the software development process by identifying coding errors at various stages of the operating system or application development. Some debuggers will analyze a test run to see what lines of code were not executed.

To set a breakpoint in source code: Click in the far left margin next to a line of code. You can also select the line and press F9, select Debug > Toggle Breakpoint, or right-click and select Breakpoint > Insert breakpoint. The breakpoint appears as a red dot in the left margin.