I have a program that using DirectX.DirectSound that generates various audio tones by filling a buffer with data, including all the required header bytes for a WAV format file. I've used this technique before and it works great. I'm just starting a new project and have copied in some code from an earlier (working) project and I've hit a bug. Somewhere I've obviously done something stupid, but the annoying thing is that when I try to debug my project and "play" my data file the project just hangs, with no error messages or anything that will help me to find the error. The same thing happens whether I have the "Visual Studio Hosting Process" option checked or not. I can stop the program by clicking on the "Stop Debugging" button. If I look at Task Manager when the program is running, it is taking about 40% CPU. I can't even put a breakpoint at the very beginning of the Sub that is called to play the file. The program somehow hangs before the breakpoint is reached.
So, I'm not really asking for help to fix my bug - I would of course have posted code if I wanted that - but rather, how is that a program running in the VB IDE ("debugging", if you prefer) can hang without giving any hint as to what is going wrong? Do I have a serious gap in my knowledge of debugging VB.NET?
So, I'm not really asking for help to fix my bug - I would of course have posted code if I wanted that - but rather, how is that a program running in the VB IDE ("debugging", if you prefer) can hang without giving any hint as to what is going wrong? Do I have a serious gap in my knowledge of debugging VB.NET?