Not in Visual Studio 2008 Express, that’s for sure.

  It’s a VS 2008 Professional option only, and it looks like this:

You need the “Break all processes when one process breaks” option when you are trying to step though a background process.  I want to use background processes as I need to do many file downloads in the background.

And background threads are the only way to do it.

I talk (briefly) about background thread processing in “Sew me a Thread or three.”

The software application I’m writing is taking up most of my time, which why blog posts have been a bit lean around here.