Conditional Breakpoints

[garrettpauls]

This may be more accurate to target at Visual Studio, but it's a pain point I've run into as I get deeper into WinUI development so I'm going to ask here to start.

Currently trying to set a conditional breakpoint on almost any property on any built in WinUI control fails an error similar to "Evaluation of method Microsoft.UI.Xaml.FrameworkElement.get_Name() calls into native code. Evaluation of native methods in this context is not supported."

I understand why this happens (I appreciate the descriptive error message), but it does hamper the debugging workflow when coming from WPF where I could set a conditional breakpoint on almost anything.

My question is: are there any plans to allow conditional breakpoints on WinUI control properties in Visual Studio? Or is that off the table since WinUI is mostly calls into unmanaged code?

As a follow up: are there any good workarounds to this? Currently when I know I need to do a conditional breakpoint I'll store the value off into a temporary variable and break on that, but it's inconvenient when you realize you need this on the fly and haven't written code accordingly.