Embarrassing but I still would like to share this in case it drives you nuts ... well I even re-installed Visual Studio to resolve this. What happened?
All the sudden setting breakpoints using F9 stopped working. I had just finished installing service pack 1 for my OS so I had a prime suspect. Or so I thought. After removing one plug-in at a time, repairing Visual Studio 2010 and eventually reinstalling it, it still wouldn't work.
I don't know what made me check this but for some reason I found that some function keys would still do something. After some experimentation I found that my keyboard has a special key "F Lock" and after I pressed that all was back to normal. Normally keyboards don't have that key. However, I have a Microsoft natural ergonomics keyboard and it has that key. Apparently I must have had pressed the "F Lock" key accidentally. Oh, well! I guess it's Friday night and time to get some sleep ...
This little post is a gem - have been unable to use F9, F10, F11 for the past couple weeks or months - and your "aha" moment turned out to be the root cause of my pain. Much appreciated!
ReplyDeleteI just spent an hour trying to find why my f9 didn't work. Your post hit fixed my problem.
ReplyDeleteThank you
Dan
Thank you! Saved me a lot of debugging (I didn't know the F Lock even existed)
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot! Saved my life.
ReplyDeleteMe too. Thanks for bothering to put that up. Saved me a lot of messing about.
ReplyDeleteKevin