New Breakpoint Configuration Experience in Visual Studio 2015

This post details the updated breakpoint configuration experience in Visual Studio 2015. It introduces a non-modal Peek window for configuring breakpoint settings, categorizing them into 'Conditions' and 'Actions'. Specific improvements highlighted include easier access to conditional statements, hit counts (with options for equals, multiple of, and greater than or equal to), filters (for process, thread, or machine), and tracepoints (for logging messages to the output window with automatic execution resumption). The post provides walkthroughs demonstrating the use of hit counts to debug a failing character shift in an encoding library and conditional statements to debug a decoding issue in a Web API scenario. It also explains how to use tracepoints with pseudo-variables to log encoded and decoded byte shifts, and how to combine conditions and actions with filter breakpoints to reduce noise in the output.