I have a COM object (implemented in C++) that works fine from VBA (in Excel) and other environments, but doesn't work from within .NET when called by a C# application. The function typecasts the IDispatch* to the C++ type it knows it must be and accesses some private members. 1. How can I ...more >>

I know that all you want to hear about is yet another non- admin remote debugger problem but I'm really stumped. Before you quickly reply, please note that I have spent several days scouring the newsgroups, reading the How To Solve Debugger Problems document, and KB articles like 306172. ...more >>

When I try and start debugging any of my //localhost web sites, it builds it properly, but I then receive an error message. It says "Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging on web server. Catastrophic Failure." It allows me to choose OK or HELP. When in help, it g...more >>

Visual Studio can tell me the callers/callees of a given function. I guess this is a browse info function, so it's in the BSC file instead of the PDB file. Does the DIA SDK allow me to do anything similar from the PDB? Or is there any documentation/API for reading BSC files? SBR files?...more >>

I have a number of using statements that are not finding the office components. ex: using Microsoft.Office.Core; ...more >>

i have installed vs.net perfectly but when I reboot my pc and try to launch the application i get this message...; An unexpected error has prevented Visual Studio from starting. This error generally occurs when one or more components of Visual Studio are missing or incompletely registered on y...more >>

I have found a bug in VS.NET 2003 that I can't seem to find a solution for. When I am at a break point, I want to expand a variable node in the local windows to see the properites of the corresponding object. However, when I press the + sign, the + sign goes away and nothing happens! ...more >>

The debugger is automatically invoked if you have an exception. UNLESS You have any try/catch blocks further up the stack. In that case the stack is unwound, and all useful state is lost. You could explicitly invoke the debugger then, but there is no point as there is no stack. And even a...more >>

I am writing a report scheduling service in VB .NET and I am having problems connecting to my SQL Server database using the trusted connection. This is my connection string. "workstation id=CNOLAN;packet size=4096;integrated security=SSPI;data source=SALESWEB;persist security info=False;initia...more >>

I need to be able to debug my application through host headers that I have set up in IIS and my local hosts file. When debugging starts, the url IE is sent to is: //localhost/myapp/mychosenstartpage Is there a way to debug with a host header? Something like: //myapp.com TIA~ PJ ...more >>

I'm porting an older VS 6 C++ application to NET 2003 and getting a C4702 (unreachable code) warning at /W4 for the following code: throw new CArchiveException( CArchiveException::none, User.GetName()); where User.GetName() is a function returning a CString. The following code does *n...more >>

Hi I want to use the data breakpoints in C++ codes. Any tutorials to get me start. Thanks. Boxing Wang ...more >>

I have a PC104 development system that is running XP embedded. The system has limited resource (only 70M hard drive space left). Is there a way of manually installing the remote debug software from VS.NET? I cannot use msiexec (not installed on system) as described on the 'Remote Component Set...more >>

Hallo Everyone, I am have some problems debugging an application. I can start the application in Visual Studio .NET 2002, but then the program crashes in such a way that there is no indication why or on what line the program has crashed on. When I run the same program outside of visual st...more >>

hi all, I am trying to access Sql server remotely through Server explorer... is that possible? I thank you for your help...more >>

How do I remote debug an ATL server dll using VS .NET 2003? Remote debugging is working fine for the client application, and I have no problem debugging the dll locally (by pointing to the local client app). If I specify the remote client app in the "Debugging->Remote Command" setting (in th...more >>

I am debugging a browser helper object (dll) and I have debug settings to launch Internet Explorer and attach for debugging. This has been working fine, but now I receive this error: Unable to attach to machine 'FRANK2'. Do you want to continue anyway? I am debugging on the local machine a...more >>

Hello, I have a simple console application in C++ whose main() does the following... char* s = "Hello"; printf("String is %s\n",s); return 0; I set a conditoinal breakpoint on the line with the printf, the condition is s == "Hello". The breakpoint is not hit and execution continues wit...more >>

I have remote debugging setup on a Win2k3 server and I'm accessing it from VS.Net 2003. I can attach to the process fine and can set a breakpoint in an code behind the aspx page and have it work just fine. But if a have a class in a separate assembly (different than the web application assembl...more >>

I'm at the end of my rope, I've tried everything I can think of and, while the problem is all over google, no answer has worked for me. I'm getting the following error while trying to start my web project in debug mode. "Error while trying to run the project: Unable to start debugging on the w...more >>

Hi there, I just wrote an application and it works fine when it runs on a local computer. But I have the above folowing error message when I try to run the application when it's located on a remote server. An unhandled exception of type 'System.Security.SecurityException' occurred in Unknown...more >>

I'm trying to use the enhanced debugger in VS.Net and SQL Server 2000 that allows setting a breakpoint in a SQL Server stored procedure, then having a VB.Net application that calls the SP break so that I can see what VB is passing to the SP. Knowledge Base article 318144, along with some a...more >>

I can't debug on my XP Pro machine. I did install IIS AFTER Visual Basic.Net. In the online help files, I find the instruction to Register "aspnet_isapi.dll" with "aspnet_regiis.exe -i". A search on my computer reveals no such file as aspnet_regiis.exe. (And no regiis.exe either.) ...more >>

When I try to debug my web application, it does a debug build and then after a couple of seconds tells me that the project is not enabled for debugging. What am I missing? Thanks. -- Michael Tissington Oaklodge Technologies http://www.oaklodge.com/technology ...more >>

Hi! After I installed Win2K SP4 I discovered that I was unable to debug applications from within VS2002. Sure, it says "Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped" but nothing else happens. That application won't show although I can see it in the process list. Basically VS2002 just hangs. ...more >>

I have an assembly (an exe) that needs a corresponding config file. If I locate the config file in my source directory, its not recognized by the assembly when it loads. If I locate the config file in the debug/bin directory, it is deleted by visual studio.net when the build occurrs. Can any...more >>

Hello All. I'm trying to install Visual Studio.Net but when ever i want to install it says please install windows component upgrade. can someone help me what is windows component and where i get that please thanks...more >>

I'm trying to get retrieve information about type information stored in a PDB with the SymGetTypeInfo function. Specifically, I want to be able to present the user with something similar to a C structure definition. To do this, I need to be able to navigate nested trees of user-defined types (...more >>

Hi All, I've got VS.NET Ent. Architect on Win 2K workstation, with all my projects on a Win 2K server, with the .NET 1.0 SDK installed, and I was able to remotely debug ASP.NET applications without any incident until today. Now I get the following errors: On the workstation, VS.NET gives ...more >>

Hi, All I installed VS.NET 2003 and I noticed under SQL Server 2000 Login, VS.NET 2003 adds a new Login "NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE" which is a windows group, it works well if I connect SQL Server database using Windows authentication ("integrated security=SSPI" in connection string). I cann...more >>

I've noticed since upgrading to VS 2003 that guid values displayed in the watch window are not showing there values and instead show a sub object called empty. the exact same variable does work when displayed in the manual watch window such as XYZ.tostring is anybody have this problem? ...more >>

I have VS.NET 2003 ide (which uses 1.1 framework and Windows 2000 professional). From what I have uncovered, the worker process aspnet_wp dies abruptly after a webform is serviced. For every page request, it creates a new aspnet_wp process(instantiates it anew).The IIS instance was recycle...more >>

I am interested in using the technique described in the "Developing With Visual Studio .NET" documentation in the section on "Launching the Debugger Automatically." I have an ASP.NET application that launches an out-of- process exe program, and I would like the exe to start in the Visual ...more >>

Hi all, I'm trying to debug a control and it's container together, I can't make it jump from one to the other although it works with ALL server and it's container, "Attach to process" option doesn't work. Any reason why?? At the moment I have to debug each separately. Thanks in advance ...more >>

Hi all, Debugging an unmanaged control used to work in VS.NET 2002, but it doesn't anymore in VS.NET 2003, any reason why? At the moment I have to open two VS.NET (2002 & 2003), one time I debug the container using 2003, then if everything is ok I'll stop the 2003 and run the 2002 and debug...more >>

I did a search, but find nothing close, so I post this here. I am using Visual Studio .Net 2003 to modify an ASP application (not ASP.Net). I have some simple VBScript to iterate the data in a Request.Form object, similar to a simple "Hello World" program. First the VS .Net will not c...more >>

I recently upgraded to Windows XP Pro from Windows XP Home to get IIS for Web App Development. In debugging a Windows Application, I press F5 or one of the start debug buttons and the application appears to go through the build process and stop. The application window (of an MDI appl) do...more >>

Hi there, yesterday, I inserted _crtBreakAlloc(704) into my source code in VS ..NET. worked fine, but after removing the line from my source code, the debugger keeps saying "unhandled exception ... user breakpoint" where there is definitely no error (i've compiled the sources on other com...more >>

when I try to debug my web app I get this error message Error while trying to run project:Unable to start debugging on the web server, you do not have permission to debug the server. verify that you are a member of the 'Debuuger users group' on the server, would you like to disable future at...more >>

Are there any good tutorials on debugging. I have never really used the debugger and just looking for some good overview to get me started. Steve Wofford www.IntraRELY.com ...more >>

Hi, I have a problem running/debugging my web applications. I have spend the last two days trying to figure out this problem and no luck. Here's the errro message I am getting when trying. I think I have installed the VB.net OK and it might be down to my user name and the ISS. "Error whi...more >>

I have built a C# TLB in which I have enabled the COM Interrop option. I am using this component from within a VS6 ATL service. I am now trying to debug both components but am unable to bring both components up in debug at the same time under their respective environments. I have built the VS6...more >>

I am debugging a managed C++ application. When the debugger catches an unmanaged exception, it just displays a dialog stating the exception message only. Is there anyway to view all of the exception object contents in the VS debugger? -- ----------------------------------- Ken Varn Senio...more >>