I have a project that I am building that includes a reference to the Microsoft Data Application Block as a "Release" version of the DLL. When I open the QuickWatch window while debugging code, I normally would expect to see the tree showing all the selected object's properties. But instead I...more >>

Assume that I am in the debugger and have broken on the return statement. How can I view the value that this function will return if I press F10? Thanks for your help in advance!!! Public string GetStringVal(string str) { return ManipulateString(str); } ...more >>

PRODUCT: Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Beta 1 I am writing an app to automatically save my work in Microsoft Word. Currently, it presses Ctrl+S at an interval set by the user. Here is my code for the timer: <START OF CODE> Option Explicit On Public Class frmAutoSave ....code...more >>

VS.NET 2003 1.1 Framework. When I add an object into the watch window I can not see any of the properties of the object. :( Can anyone please tell me why. TIA ...more >>

Hi When debugging I often want to inspect the contents of vectors. I usually do this with a watch window statement like: myVec._First[0] thus showing the contents of the first element etc. Even better: To see a list of several elements in the vector I use a statement like: myVec._Fi...more >>

Hi My company previously used Visual Studio 6.0 for working on our application. As the application has quite a long startup time (especially when running Debug build from the debugger) I used Edit and Continue a lot to test the effect of small code changes. About a year ago we upgraded t...more >>

I have a couple of questions regarding using a PDB file. How does VS 2003 determe whether a PDB file is valid for the current DLL that is loaded? Is there a way to force it to load a PDB you know is valid but it doesn't believe you?? The reason I ask is I have a mdmp file from a customer th...more >>

I have been debugging some code that I inherited that includes C# and .net C++. I am relatively new to the visual.net environment. I have been having trouble getting two strings that appear to be the same to compare. When debugging and placing the cursor over a string variable, the value of...more >>

I am debugging some code that includes C# and Managed C++ code that I inherited. I'm relatively new to dotnet and have been having trouble with comparing strings. While debugging, popup boxes that show the string values some times have a box at the end. Does this indicate a null terminated ...more >>

When loading an asp.net page and there's a late binding on a dropdownlist that doesn't contain the value it's wants to bind, an error: Specified argument was out of the range of valid values. Parameter name: value occurs. The exception does NOT state on wich control the binding fails. I ah...more >>

Hi, I use Visual Studio .Net for coding ASP.Net applications (my workstation is running under Windows XP Pro SP2), and i do debug on a remote Windows Server 2003. All my application is stored on this same Windows Server 2003 (IIS 6.0). Sometimes when i do debug, on my remote debuging server...more >>

After installing SP2 myself and another at work are unable to debug our web projects. However, those still using W2K boxes are able to debug just fine. We have followed all applicable steps in KB articles concerning Firewalls, DCOM priveledges, etc. but to no avail. The remote server is a W...more >>

Hi, is it some possibility to choose program type which I want to debug when I'm attaching debugger automatically to process (from macro for example) ? I need to attach CLR debugger only - not CLR+Native. When I manually attach the CLR debugger, it works great, but I can't find the same possib...more >>

Hi, When I was trying to debug one of my project today, the break point stopped working. It doesnt stop at the break point at runtime. Anyone knows why? How can I make it work again? Thanks much! Irene ...more >>

Windows XP SP2, VS 2003, IIS 5.1, IE 6.0, Symantec AV 9.0.0.xxx I've been changing things around (and have re-installed IIS and VS 2003) and am now at the point where I have things working--except that I cannot debug IIS Server processes of ASP.NET anymore. When, in VS 2003, I select "Debug"...more >>

I finally found the solution for this problem (at least in my case), Thanks to MS support. There was _one_ function with too many parameters. Stack pointer can only hold a so-so big value, so with all this parameters, it got too big. Now the tricky part, if you had a huge part of code, ...more >>

Hello guys. When ever i try to debug an asp.net application it always throw an error "ERROR WHILE TRY TO RUN PROJECT. UNABLE TO START DEBUGING ON WEB SERVER. DEBUGING FAILED BECUSE INTEGRATED WINDOWS AUTHENTICATION IS NOT ENABLED." please tell me how can i remove this error and run my projec...more >>

I am running Visual Studio 2003 and have a project that has a managed application that uses a managed DLL that wraps an unmanaged DLL. I am trying to step into and set breakpoints in the unmanaged DLL but for some unknown reason cannot seem to do it. The breakpoints have the ? on them in the...more >>

Windows XP SP2, VS 2003, IIS 5.1, IE 6.0, Symantec AV 9.0.0.xxx I've been changing things around (and have re-installed IIS and VS 2003) and am now at the point where I have things working--except that I cannot debug IIS Server processes of ASP.NET anymore. When, in VS 2003, I select "Debug"...more >>

While debugging in C# the watch does not show values any more. It just says "cannot obtain value" on all of my variables. This happens in different projects and on different variables. I have read about other people having this problem but can't find anything about it on msdn.microsoft.com. ...more >>

Hi, Last night (12/08/04) I modified a code (MFC & DirectX9) and after that, at a specific loop one of the values (a pointer) gets set to NULL: for (int iPaletteEntry = 0; iPaletteEntry < pMesh->m_dwNumPaletteEntries; ++iPaletteEntry) { iMatrixIndex = pAttributeTable[i].BoneId[iPaletteEnt...more >>

I am a novice on .net debugging. I run Visual Studio 2003 Enterprise Architect on windows xp. I have a webservice and a windows client in the same project on the same machine. The code is vb. The problem is that my breakpoints in the webservice are never hit. I cannot debug the webservice. B...more >>

Having installed Visual Studio .NET, I can no longer debug a VS 6.0 application. From Task Manager, right click on the service and choose "debug" Windows first tries the .NET JIT debugger, that fails (see message below) and then tries the 6.0 debugger, but that complains about the command lin...more >>

I'm having this problem with debugging an asp.net app If I change the application pool identity to a specific account (a domain user account) I cannot debug it. I get this message: "Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging on the web server. You do not have permissions...more >>

when executing objCmd.ExecuteNonQuery() Get a message: Error Number: -2147219504 Description: Error in executing stored Procedure. Insert Error: Column name or number of supplied values does not match table definition. I checked the stored procedure and every looks fine. Changed ...more >>

Hi All Im getting problem whilie debugging my MFC code in VC7.1 Editor in release mode with debug info, the debugger (cursor) does't pass through any newly added codes(skips the newly added code) , but the code gets excecuted with the assigned values. Plz help me out..in this regards V...more >>

I have a domain account and i am trying to run my project from the domain controller. When I try to debug the project the error message as follows appears. "Error While trying to run project: Unable to start degugging on web server. Catastrophic failure". I have done all the access permis...more >>

I log on to my machine as a normal, non-admin user. To debug ASP.NET applications, I need to be member of the administrators group. So I launch VS.NET as local administrator using runas. Everything works fine until I try to debug the ASP.NET app. The problem is that when I start debugging ...more >>