He slumped back in his chair. “I need a hands-on Visual Studio 2022 PDF,” he muttered aloud to his empty home office. Not a reference card. Not a theory-laden ebook. A hands-on one. The kind with screenshots, arrows, and step-by-step "click here, type this."

He downloaded it, opened it in a split window, and jumped to Chapter 9: “Advanced Breakpoints and Exception Settings.” There, circled in red, was the exact error code. The fix? A single checkbox under Debug > Windows > Exception Settings that said “Managed Debugging Assistants” — disabled by some forgotten experiment of his.

Here’s a short narrative based on that search phrase: The Developer’s Last Resort