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This reminds me of how spoilt I am, with features such as edit-and-continue in Visual Studio. Doing some work recently with a more modern project that uses lambdas, edit and continue is not supported for code in lambdas. I miss the more interactive mode of writing code while executing it in the debugger. A more modern version of a REPL if you will.



Eclipse has had this feature for many years. Not only can you edit and continue, but you can actually restart a function from the beginning ("Drop to frame").


Yes, and visual studio lets you drag your current line pointer at any line within a certain scope, so if the first part of your function does some set-up calculations, no need to rerun after changing, just set your current line pointer at the line below and voila!


VS2015 will have the ability to watch the result of lambdas in debug mode, not sure about edit and continue however.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2014/11/12/s...


And let you use them in the immediate window. No more hacks to figure out what element of a list/array is blowing up your code!


You can do this with eclipse if you're just changing the body of the function. The JRebel plugin lets you change just about anything and continue.




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