VS Community debugging - break out of infinite loops

Trying to debug an infinite loop and it doesn't help that Unity will happily keep looping till kingdom come instead of timing out at some point, so I have to keep killing Unity and restarting it to keep debugging.

Is there a way to force stop script execution from VS Community while you are debugging? Unity is inaccessible while script is paused in debugger, and if I stop debugging it simply detaches and Unity keeps on hanging.

 

I don't have any infinite loops, in any of the games I've made, they're all breakable loops. Is there a pattern or reason that causes you to do so?

You could detect a condition and call break I guess?

http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorApplication-isPaused.html might be a condition for it.

 

Not sure about VS community but in other flavors I've used, there is a "break all" button. It basically causes all threads to immediately hit a break point. It may not break exactly in your loop but the stack trace might be able to point you in the right direction so you can place a regular break point.

 

Sadly, Unity cannot break out of an infinite loop, which is pretty annoying because a single mistake can lock your editor process without warning.

That's why I have worked on a "Panic Button" project to allow you to abort an infinite loop in case one happens.
You can check about it here => http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/released-panic-button-stop-infinite-loops-in-1-second.350666/