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4/8/2010

This function causes a breakpoint exception to occur in the current process so that the calling thread can signal the debugger and force it to take action.

Syntax 

void DebugBreak(void);

Parameters

None.

Return Value

None.

Remarks

If there is no debugger attached to a thread which calls DebugBreak, then that DebugBreakwill be ignored and the thread will continue as if there was no exception or DebugBreak.

Requirements

Header kfuncs.h
Library coredll.lib
Windows Embedded CE Windows CE 1.0 and later
Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Version 5.0 and later

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