How do I stop an external library from clogging my output window in VS2012?

Question

I've installed an IRC library ( http://www.nuget.org/packages/SmartIrc4net/ ) using NuGet, and it's constantly catching System.FormatException s. In their code it's try-catch'd without doing anything with it, but everytime it occurs, my output window receives a "A first chance exception of type 'System.FormatException' occurred in mscorlib.dll" message.

I'm using the output window for checking debug messages, I don't want it to be clogged with messages I don't do anything with. Any way to hide them?

Answer 1

Right click in the debugger's output window and uncheck "Exception Messages". This will hide all exception messages, not just the one's from the 3rd party.