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Asked: 2026-05-13T20:48:50+00:00

There I was happily debugging my code, when I did a restart, and even

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There I was happily debugging my code, when I did a restart, and even though VS said it was running my application, nothing showed.

When I hit stop, VS emptied itself of everything – solution explorer, all opened files, and all of the other panes (output, properties, etc.).

I’ve tried rebooting. Doesn’t help.

Tried creating an empty (default) winforms project. Checked it runs ok standalone. Try running it from VS, same thing.

Do I really have to reinstall the whole caboodle?

(If I do a pause, I get ‘No symbols to display’, and I’m not smart enough to know what to do with the Disassembly – though the Address says System.Threading.WaitHandle.WaitOne).

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  1. Editorial Team

    Visual Studio has following command line switches may help out with the problem:

    • /ResetAddin Removes commands and
      command UI associated with the
      specified Add-in.
    • /ResetSettings Restores the IDE’s
      default settings, optionally resets
      to the specified VSSettings file.
    • /ResetSkipPkgs Clears all SkipLoading
      tags added to VSPackages.
    • /SafeMode Launches Visual
      Studio in safe mode, loading only the
      default environment and services, and
      shipped versions of third party
      packages.

    Try to use those switches to see if there is any luck. This can help you to rule out the problem casued by 3rdpart plug-ins.

    Also, you may want to use Process Explorer to see if Visual Studio really created the debugging process, and inspect its status to see if there is any hint.

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