Question

I am having great problems running the application in the debugger from Visual Studio 2008.

When I’m using vshost.exe, it says:

And when vshost.exe is turned of, it simply states:

Interesting thing about it is that when i do use vshost, debugger is actually started and breakpoint is hit on the first line of the Main().

I tried:

• rebuilding the project(s)
• removing .ncb, .suo, .user for the projects
• repairing Visual Studio 2008
• changing the build architecture for the project

… no help there…

Any experience in (trouble)shooting that?

More info: some projects DO work, and one that I have to work on, does not.

I have some ideas such as:

• trying to create NEW project, add thing by thing to it and see at what point it will start to miss behave
• work it other way around, delete project by item by item to see when it will (if it will) be working OK again.

EDIT (for google, as I see that there are many similar questions on the web):

Errors:

Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging.

and

Error while trying to run project: Unable to start program ‘….\PlayKontrol.exe’

Answer 1

Try upgrading your Visual Studio to Service pack 1, if you haven’t already.