[MaulingMonkey]

> edit-and-continue

Breaks on enough codebases for me to not be in the habit of relying on it.

My own "killer feature" of VS debugging is being able to open up a crash dump, have VS auto-download matching pdbs from a symbol server, and auto-view the correct source file version/revision thanks to source indexing - without checking out by hand and turning my build stale. Killer ergonomics.

Sometimes I'll resort to windbg/cdb for memory pattern searches, automation, untangling wow-mangled crashdumps, etc. but VS itself is a nice first resort.

[sam_bristow]

I've been wanting that symbol server style workflow for GDB for years. It looks like all the parts are there but I haven't found anyone who has plumbed them together into a complete system yet.