How to create conditional breakpoint with std::string
There is a much easier way in Visual Studio 2010/2012. To accomplish what you are looking for in ANSI use this: strcmp(newString._Bx._Ptr,”my value”)==0 And in unicode (if newString were unicode) use this: wcscmp(newString._Bx._Ptr, L”my value”)==0 There are more things you can do than just a compare, you can read more about it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/habibh/archive/2009/07/07/new-visual-studio-debugger-2010-feature-for-c-c-developers-using-string-functions-in-conditional-breakpoints.aspx