Is it possible to use process explorer to kill a recursive loop generated in visual studio?

Sometimes I incorrectly code something and I create a thread that enters a never ending loop. this means I have to shut down the entire visual studio. Is it possible to use process explorer to inspect the visual stud开发者_如何学Pythonio process and shut down the thread that is killing the cpu?

Pete

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Erm... yes? Normally you can just press "stop" (shift+f5) when debugging, but otherwise just locate your app (in task manager or any other tool; typically just a case of sorting by CPU usage) and end the process. VS will treat that as your process exiting, but VS itself should be fairly unharmed.

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No, you can't use Process Explorer to kill a single thread. You kill the entire process. You could use SysInternals procexp.exe to analyze processes and threads and kill only a single thread within a given process. Very nifty tool. But in general avoid coding never ending loops :-)

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Yes you can.

But doesn't the Visual Studio Debugger have an 'stop'-button or something alike?