How to: Get Back to the Function that Called MFC If Halted

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If you used the Break command on the Debug menu to halt the program and ended up in MFC, and you are sure the problem is in your code, you can use the Call Stack window to navigate back to your function. For more information, see How to: Use the Call Stack Window.

Sometimes your code may break in the message pump. In that case, there is no user code on the call stack. To avoid this problem, you can use breakpoints (possibly with conditions and hit counts) instead of the Break command. For more information, see Breakpoints and Tracepoints).

To navigate to the function from which MFC was called

  • Use the Call Stack window.

See Also

Debugging Native Code FAQs
Debugging Native Code