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As a developer spending hours a day in Visual Studio with C++ as primary language this is a major improvement in terms of development time. Debugging is a a time consuming task in any language, but library headers from STD and Boost slow down the process tremendously.

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Although it does help, I would say its only a bit faster than actually just setting a breakpoint of where you want the code to stop, and running till then, unlike Microsoft's example which shows 85 step intos, as if people actually do that.

It depends on the purpose of your debugging. If you know exactly where you want to go then, as you say, this has diminished value. but debugging can often be exploratory, in which case this feature could be a real timesaver.

We, for example, have lots of classes and structures that are designed to the interfaces provided by the STD containers. Mix that with actual STD containers and you can spend several hours trying to find the problem. Just My Code eliminates much of that since almost always the STD is not the cause for the problem.

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