Re: 'Unable to start debugging' when running WindowsApp out of Visual

From: Reinhard Lehner (bulk_at_functionalsoft.at)
Date: 01/04/05 

Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:34:58 +0100

Hi Naveen!

I already tried this. I reinstalled the framework 1.1 Sp2 - no effect.
I tried VStudio repair option - no effect.
At last I removed VStudio completely und reinstalled it and .. guess what:
no effect.

Thank's
Reinhard

"Naveen" <Naveen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:43E0D81B-9C57-446F-94F1-E7298E8E6E23@microsoft.com...
>
> Hi
>
> I suspect after XP SP2 it might have corrupted some assemblies. Try taking
> latest packs for framework from microsoft for 1.1.
>
> Last option would be put VS disk again and choose "repair" option.
>
> With Best Regards
> Naveen K S
>
> "Reinhard Lehner" wrote:
>
>> Hi there!
>>
>> I spent the last week trying to fix this problem - I am always getting an
>> error when trying to run an application (WinForms or PPC) out of Visual
>> Studio IDE:
>>
>> 'Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging.'
>> 'The debugger is not properly installed. Run setup to install or repair
>> the
>> debugger.'
>>
>> Building my solution or starting the exe works fine. But running it out
>> of
>> IDE in Debug or Release mode causes this error.
>>
>> I am using Visual Studio 2003 on Windows XP SP2 and .Net Framework 1.1
>> SP2
>> I think this has something to do with installing Office2003 or WinXP
>> SP2 -
>> maybe this error occurs since then.
>>
>> I tried to repair Visual Studio installation, I tried to uninstall and
>> reinstall it. No effect.
>>
>> One hint I got from the community was that the problem has to do with
>> 'mdm.exe'. So I tried to interchange it with the corresponding file on
>> the
>> setup-disk. (coloader.dll csm.dll, msdbg2.dl, ... too). After registering
>> each of these I got no improvement. Same problem as before.
>>
>> Any ideas?! Hope someone can help!
>>
>> Greetings
>> Reinhard
>>
>>
>>

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