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Asked: 2026-05-26T06:11:10+00:00

I’m doing some visual studio extension development in Visual Studio 2010. It would be

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I’m doing some visual studio extension development in Visual Studio 2010.
It would be useful to debug while developing so I have it configured to open another instance of VS when debugger for F5 ( http://donovanbrown.com/post/How-to-debug-a-Visual-Studio-Extension.aspx). This all works fine but is there a way to attach a debugger to an existing instance of VS2010, I have tried and the breakpoints aren’t being hit. There are no errors but wondering if there is a way?

I should add I do know how to attach to a debugger and I have used it before to attach to ASP.net code.

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    OK managed to solve it.
    What I was doing was when opening an instance of Visual studio, following the usual method, i.e. open a normal instance ( devenv.exe).
    What you have to is open a experiemental instance, using the parameters ( cmd line mode):
    /rootsuffix Exp

    Then use the attach to debugger mode to attach to this instance.

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