Visual Studio Extension: Hide “Break Mode” and “No Source Available” tab.

This small extension will prevent the tool window with title “Break Mode” or “No Source Available” from appearing in Visual Studio, and preserve the focus on the currently active tab.

Alas, Visual Studio otherwise displays a tab stating that ‘The application is in break mode’ and that it cannot find source code to step into. This is obvious when simply pausing an idle application, therefore it forces the developer to close this window before getting back to the code he wants to modify, which may be a productivity killer.

Let’s hope this extension will be short-lived (though it has been more than 10 years now 🙂 so better not to hold your breadth) as the Visual Studio development team adds an option to better control this behavior!

This extension should work with all locales of Visual Studio.

Finding absolutely no solution/workaround despite an exhaustive digging created an immense frustration and at the same time a good reason to play with the Visual Studio Extensibility framework and accomplish the job myself :). The result is much fitter than what I could have done with AutoIT (probably an always running background loop checking for specific IDE windows through graphical pattern matching).

Feature requests are welcome here. Official GitHub repository here. Contributions are welcome.

You can install the extension from within Visual Studio directly or download the VSIX installable package from the Visual Studio Marketplace.