What the heck is Dissassembly?

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Hello all!

So a few days ago in VS 2003, working on a windows app in vb.net. I have a
tab in my main window. The same place where your form window is, vb window,
start page, etc. What is this and why is it there? When I run my program, it
comes up with two of them. One with (Enter an address to view disassembly.)
on it. The it has a drop down above it, pointing to a click event. Which
I'm having a little problem with.

So, What is this doing, and how do I use it to help me. And I can never make
it go away, how can I do that?

Thanks!

Rudy
 
Disassembly basically means showing machine code in a human-readable form.
Historically this means showing assembly instructions--which seems to apply
the context you're describing. If you don't know assembly it probably won't
help you.

This is displayed when you try to break or trace into code that has no
debugging information and the only way the debugger can break or trace into
it is to show disassembly. I know of no way of "turning this off", you've
asked the debugger to do something with code it doesn't have the information
about to really do what you've asked. The only way to get around this is to
not ask the debugger to do that...
 
Thank you Peter!

Peter Ritchie said:
Disassembly basically means showing machine code in a human-readable form.
Historically this means showing assembly instructions--which seems to apply
the context you're describing. If you don't know assembly it probably won't
help you.

This is displayed when you try to break or trace into code that has no
debugging information and the only way the debugger can break or trace into
it is to show disassembly. I know of no way of "turning this off", you've
asked the debugger to do something with code it doesn't have the information
about to really do what you've asked. The only way to get around this is to
not ask the debugger to do that...
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