Hi When I try to remove some break points in my VS.net projects, they are not cleared permanently. The full red circle that signifies a break point turns into an empty circle. When I restart debugging the break point again becomes active. Why does this happen for some break points and how ...more >>

Hi, is it possible to use Visual Studio debugger with other compiler (for example gcc?). Is the format of PDB docummented? Can VS debugger read coff?Is there a converter? Thank you very much for any comments. ...more >>

I'm running VS .NET 2k3 on Windows XP Pro SP2. I get the following error when I want to start debugging an application: "Unable to start debugging. Unable to start program 'e:\chronon\visual studio projects\pqno\pqno\debug\pqno.exe' Thre debugger is not properly installed. Run setup to in...more >>

I have a pure .Net application that I run in the vs2k5 debugger. I often have lock ups of Visual Studio that never recover or if I break the application it shows strang data in the call stack. It does not even show the .Net source code. Below is list of the threads in use and a typical ca...more >>

I have a DMP file from IIS 6 obtained from the Debug Diagnostics tool. I am attempting to get the stack trace. I can open the DMP in Visual Studio (using .NET 2003), and run the DMP, but of course all I get are the addresses as it cannot find the symbol files. I've downloaded symbol files a...more >>

I am using VS2005 and when I do a Debug.WriteLine("Something"), nothing is displayed in my Debug Window. Is there a setting someplace that I have accidentally turned off that is making it so nothing shows here? Is there any suggestions on how to get this working right again? I am developing...more >>

When debugging our app with VS 2005, sometimes I am unable to break on thrown exceptions. The IDE allows me to choose to break on managed exceptions, but the debugger does not break on the throw. To debug these issues, I have to put a breakpoint in the constructor of the exception that I kn...more >>

Hi, I've asked this question in the dotnet.languages.csharp newsgroup, but have received no replies whatsoever. Then I discovered this newsgroup and figured it would be a better place to look for help. I'm currently experiencing a problem when attempting to step through an unmanaged C++ ...more >>

I've seen Scott Nonnenbergs (excellent) video on Visualizers on Channel9 (http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=164928), and started creating my own little visualizer-thingies. However, if I create a visualizer for String types, it never shows in the visualizers list whilst debugging. ...more >>

i want to debug an ASP website on IIS5. i push the "Start Debugging" button, and i get a big message box that contains HTML code. Through the &lt;'s and &gt;'s, i can deciper a message: <quote> Unable to start debugging on the web server. Server Error in '/' Application. Runtime Error ...more >>

I'm debugging/stepping through a Visual Basic program which uses the Shell command to call a .exe program which I also wrote in VB. The .exe program was written and compiled on the same PC with the same Visual Studio 2005 (release version), and with the Configuration Manager settings set to D...more >>

I just installed Visual Studio 2005 Professional edition on a Win2000 pro SP4 workstation. When I try to debug any application (VB or C#) I get this popup error after a long wait: "Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging. This operation returned because the timeout peri...more >>

Hi, We're developing a Soap WebService that is now using some remote files. We added the required statement in its Web.Config file to impersonate from local "myComputer\ASPNET" to domain authorized "myDomain\myAccount" (ie <identity impersonate="true" userName="myDomain\myAccount" passwo...more >>

Recently, after I have been using the debugger for a while, I get a message "no symbols loaded" when starting a debug run. What might cause this? Thanks, E-Jo ...more >>

Howdy. I am able to connect to a remote machine using MSVSMON. The console on the remote machine says "jlind connected", as you would expect, but Visual Studio.NET 2005 says "Unable to connect to the Microsoft Visual Studio Remote Debugging Monitor named ''. An unexpected DCOM error occurred ...more >>

I am getting an error at the line where my VB.Net program calls the InitializeComponent() method. During debug, I cannot even step into InitializeComponent() to identify what is causing the error. The execution is generating an error that reads: An unhandled exception of type 'System.Invali...more >>

EXE files are created with absolute path specifications to locate their associated PDB files. Is there a way to prevent this from happening? I would like to prevent the absolute paths on a build machine from being embedded in the EXE file, instead I would like a relative reference to be used s...more >>

I am trying to debug a C++ project. I went through my project settings meticulously and set everything that seems to be related to debugging, to YES or to other sensible values. And yet, all breakpoints in my own code are ignored. The only breakpoints that I can step through, are those in the sy...more >>

Our app is apparently crashing consistently on one of our testers' machines, but nowhere else. I've been given the 64KB .dmp file that's created - the one that would be sent to Microsoft through the standard error reporting dialogue - but I can't debug it. I have the correct .pdb and .exe avai...more >>

I create a new project in Visual Studio 2005 and I click on 'Connect to Device' button. I get a messagebox 'Interface Not Registered' and cannot connect. After a while VS crashes. I also tried F5, the little app compiles successfully, but when deploy time comes, I get the message 'No such inte...more >>

Hi I am unable to debugg a function in a 2 project solution. I have both projects, for an exe and dll in the same solution. I am unable to reach the breakpoint I have set on a function in the dll. It is as if the dll project is not seen by the exe project, it just steps over. I have trie...more >>

I use Try...Catch..Finally statements to prevent exceptions from interfering with the operation of my program. I assumed that statements executed within the Try block that cause exceptions would not otherwise send output to the "Output" tab of the debuggin environment (unless you place a con...more >>

greeting, The SymFromAddr Function always return FALSE, and @err,hr was parameters error. But If I rollback the DBGHelp.DLL to Version 6.2.13.1, not fix my code, the SymFromAddr worked well. Someone tell me was different between Version 6.6.3.5 and 6.2.13.1. ...more >>

I think the debugger should highlight the error line on any exceptions. I think it does this in vs2003. This is a HUGE feature loss. A major annoyance. I have tried changing debugger options with no success....more >>

Hi I have some simple structs and would like to see the internal details in the debugger (locals, watch etc). For example if I have the struct public struct apoint { float x; float z; } I would like to see for example 3.2, 4.6 instead of "apoint struct" when using quick watch on ...more >>

How to configure VS05 for cross-solution debugging ? Two instances of VS05 open ... how to debug step from solution in one instance into a call to a referenced lib method the other instance ? Thanks. ...more >>