How to stop the CLR optimizing your variables during a debug session

Finally decided to see if there was something I could do to stop the CLR optimizing away all the variables when I want to remote debug an application. This seems to have the answer, http://blogs.msdn.com/tom/archive/2008/05/09/getting-more-information-from-clrstack.aspx
Essentially, create an myfile.ini for your dll/exe and put the following in it;
[.NET Framework Debugging Control]
GenerateTrackingInfo=1
AllowOptimize=0
 
 

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