Debug Problems

[William LaMartin]

Something very strange has happened to Visual Studio Professional 2005 on my
laptop. I need to get it figured out since I am on the road and don't have
access to my desktop computer or my VS disks.

I was working with a Windows project and debugging fine. I only made a few
minutes worth of changes (and did nothing to the VS setup as far as I know).
The all of a sudden, when I clicked on Debug | Start Debugging, the project
build succeeded, the startup window of the application appeared and
disappeared in a flash. A second try produced the same thing.

I checked the output folders (ProjectName/bin and ProjectName/obj/Release)
and found the application exe there and double-clicked on it. The hour glass
appeared, but nothing else.

Then I got an idea and moved the exe to another folder on the computer. The
exe ran fine from there and exhibited the changes I had made to it before I
tried to run it in debug mode. This is very strange in that it appears that
from within these folders, the application exe can not be run. Other exes
like notepad.exe will run fine from there.

Additionally I note that on the VS Build menu item I do not have a
Configuration Manager in the drop down.

Finally, this is the situation for all projects including new ones I have on
the laptop.

Does anyone have any suggestions? So far a search via Google has produced
nothing.

 

[William LaMartin]

For the record, this problem was solved by shutting down the laptop and
restarting it an hour later (which also happened to be the next day). Why
this would correct the problem and simply shutting down and then rebooting
did not solve the problem, I can not say.

I recall now that this same thing happened to me several months back, and
the solution then was to shut down in the evening and start up again the
next morning.