I have two projects -- one is an unmanaged C++ DLL used by multiple applications, the other is a c# application that needs to call the DLL. When I run the C# app from VS, it cannot find the unmanaged C++ DLL unless I copy it into the xxxx\bin\debug folder in my C# project. But, it appears ...more >>

Hi, all I'm using Visual Studio 2003, with a C++ project. I would like to have some extra directories in the PATH of the program being debugged. Is there a way to configure this, or do I have to put those directories in the PATH before I start VS itself? Cheers - rick ...more >>

Hi folks, In the past, I have been able to attach to processes to debug. Now when I try to do this, I get the error "Unable to attach to process. Access is denied." I'm not sure what I did to cause this to happen, it happened all of a sudden. It's making me crazy, what could have caused thi...more >>

I'm working on a console app in C# and when I hit F5, it pops up and disappears immediately. Is there a way I can keep this from happening in Visual Studio? I want the DOS window to stay open so I can see what it's reporting without having to go and execute the debug build manually. ...more >>

Hello, I'm currently looking for good debugger (trial version) which show me major of errors and secondly integrate with Visual Studio .NET 2003. I used to Parasoft Insure++. Unfortunetly my license has just over. My comapny gives me assignment to find : the better and the cheapiest (to the p...more >>

I'm trying to debug ASP.NET using VB. I'm able to attach manually and I can debug by logging into terminal serivces. I cannot get the automatic attatchment to work. I'm running XP Pro on the client. I'm trying to connect to Win2k Server. I've been through many of the support documents f...more >>

Hi, I am confused, often I can not use the Debug.writeLine command in the command window when in cmd mode. Does anybody know when or what types of applications that you can't use certain debug commands with? It's really annoying to have to use watch all the time. Thanks, Chris ...more >>

I get the above message when trying to attach to a remote machine. Running VS2003 and XPsp2 without the firewall. Not sure if it's an SP2 problem, but I've got plenty of sp1 pc's on the network that can connect just fine. Has anyone seen this before. WR...more >>

When attempting to debug I receive the following: "Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging on the web server. Access is denied. Would you like to disable future attempts to debug ASP.NET pages for this project?" I have read most posts regarding this similar error with the ...more >>

I see from some of the other postings in this group that others are also having problems with remote debugging. Let me describe my situation: - I have a WinXP Pro/SP2 machine that is my "development" machine. It has VS.Net 2003 installed on it. - I have a Win 2003 Server system that is my ...more >>

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0027_01C4BC0B.A2190F70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable When I try to run a webservice on a remote server in debug mode, or even = try to attach to a process on a re...more >>

Hi, I'm running asp.net application on my machine (XPsp1) with vs2003, and I'm receiving "Server error" page when exception is thrown by the application. I've expected to receive jit debugger dialog instead. From other side, breakpoints and manual attaching are working fine and jit debugg...more >>

Hi, I've VS 6 was already installed. I installed the VS.NET it replaced the VC++ 6 Debugger which I was comfortable with. Is there any way to get the old debugger back?, I Tried the NT Symbols setup but doesnt work. Thanks in advance. Fahad Ashfaque...more >>

I have tried just about everything to enable debugging of client side scripting. I have installed MSD. Unchecked "Disable Scripting" from IE. Coded "debugger;" in the jscript source. Tried attaching directly to IE via debug processes in VS.NET 2003 Nothing works. Anyone have any idea...more >>

After setting the start page and clicking "Start Without Debugging" I receive this error: "Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging. Unable to start program...... The system cannot find the file specified." The ellipsis above contains 14 block symbols and 1 left parenthesis...more >>

I'm calling a C DLL from C#, and it works if I put the c# exe and the DLL in some directory and run the exe from that dir. But, if I try to run the c# prog from within the VisualStudio .Net2003, no matter where I put the DLL, the c# prog throws an exception about not finding the DLL. The c# ...more >>

Hi, We are building an application framework, and we use VS as an IDE. We don't use VS CL compiler but other ones (like gcc) ... and we would like to debug directly inside VS ... but as we don't use MS debug formats, we must use gdb or any other debugger. Is it possible to create a dll/...more >>

I am trying to enable SQL Debugging. The documentation says "With a project selected in Solution Explorer, click Property Pages on the View menu." Well, when I select my sql data project, select the view menu, the Property Pages menu item is grayed out -- can't get to it. What gives? Any ...more >>

I am using VS 2003 on a Windows Server 2003 Machine. I am debugging a solution that has 8 projects and when in debugging mode and stepping through code line by line it is extremely slow. I have seen other similar posts about this and have not seen a good fix for the problem. I have tried ...more >>

Hello, I need to extend a type at runtime in order to add some properties/fields to it. I've managed to create the derived type with help from the System.Reflection.Emit namespace and the code runs fine. Sample code: namespace RefTest { public class Base { private s...more >>

In VS.NET I'm trying to debug client-side jscript. I installed the script debugger as downloaded from MS for use on XP. I inserted the statement 'debugger' into some script on a page. At the statement, the debugger started but was empty. VS.NET debug | windows | running documents was also ...more >>

Hi folks, In the past, I have been able to attach to processes to debug. Now when I try to do this, I get the error "Unable to attach to process. Access is denied." I'm not sure what I did to cause this to happen, it happened all of a sudden. It's making me crazy, what could have caused thi...more >>

I am using Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003 on a Windows 2003 Server (Beta) machine. My MFC code compiles, builds and executes fine (in debug mode), but any breakpoint that I insert in my code is just being ignored/skipped by the debugger. Everybody else's around me seems to be working fine. ...more >>

I have a problem where I try to analyse a dmp-file in VS.NET. I can't get the symbols to load for most of my developed dll's. Error message says 'No matching binary found' when trying to load the dll. My guess is that VS.NET tries to match not only versions of the dll from the dump and the dl...more >>

w2k3, vs2003, asp.net 1.1 sp 1(?): Error on starting vs.net web project in debugger: "Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging on the web server." That's it, other than an OK button, and it's pretty far from ok. None of the usual fixes seem to work. If there were mor...more >>

Hello! I have a C++ project, build in VC7, not using MFC. When recognizing an error, can I print the call stack to a file? Thanks, Eynav. ...more >>

I'm in the process of implementing a debugger. The msdn documentation on "VectoredHandler" says that "the handler should not call functions that acquire synchronization objects or allocate memory, because this can cause problems". What are these problems that could occure if I attempt to do ...more >>

I apologize in advance for sending this off to multiple lists, but... I've got a windows app that launches a few threads. When I look at the code with the windows debugger I try to set a breakpoint near the entry of the thread, Visual Studio indicates that no code is loaded at that loca...more >>

I am unable to use remote debugging. I am developing on a windows xp sp2 machine. The remote machine is windows 2003 server. I have the firewall disabled and remote debugging had been working for a while. Recently it stopped working and there is no apparent cause for the change. I have do...more >>

Hi, sometimes when i am debugging an application in vs.net the application and vs.net are hanging and consuming nearly 100% cpu. If i look at the processes with task manager i see that the starting application always has a process size of nearly 60KB. The only way to continue is to kill vs....more >>

Experienced posters, I am interested in capturing the debug.printor trace.writeline statements of a compiled application with a separate app. Is this possible? I have seen some 3rd party apps that claim that they do just that. Thanks for any direction. Chris ...more >>

I suspect that everyone in this group are expert debuggers, but perhaps you're so deeply into using debugger that you've never stopped to think about the very high-level rules you follow. Or don't occasionally, resulting in long debug cycles. I've written a book which is pretty much "Debuggin...more >>

Hi folks, Since I have upgraded to XP SP2 the following does not work anymore: - RUNAS SysInternals's Process Explorer using a local admin account (PIARANZA\sba-admin) - right-click on a process, Debug -- for a process running under my login (domain) account OCE-PLT\sba I get: -------...more >>

Attempting to debug an application that we have can take over 30 minutes to start. Running the applicaiton it begins within a few seconds from the IDE. Running it under the debugger devenv goes to 100% CPU utilization for over 30 minutes. I'm running XP SP1 with up to date patches and V...more >>

Hi, I installed SP2 and the debugger goes nuts saying: "You do not have permission to debug the server" and make sure I'm a member of Debugger Users which I am. I'm also running the dubugger under the Administrator context. Permissions on the app dir are correct, IIS permissions are corre...more >>