Debug Across Projects In Program If One Launches Other?
Aug 3, 2010
I have a VS 2008 Solution in VB.Net that has 2 projects - a Launcher and the App. The Launcher is what runs first, checks to make sure the App has all the latest files from the network, etc. and then launches the App. The Launcher allows the user to select their environment (Test, Production) then passes those values into the App.exe as command line arguments.
This works fine when running normally, but when trying to debug this, I'm trying to figure out how to start Debugging from the Launcher, then pass the selected Environment into the other project so it can read them as command line arguments.
I've tested it several times because I cannot believe it. If you put a late bound project in the same solution as the calling project, you can debug the late bound project !
You can even put breakpoints in!
@#%ing amazing. Top marks to Microsoft. I don't know if this is by design, or a side effect of how the debugger works, but I don't care because it makes writing late bound projects so much friendlier.
OK Cor, you can go ahead and rubbish late-binding now.
Simple question one would think, but I am having trouble finding the answer. Eclipse.org promotes eclipse as being a Java IDE, but has many plugins and extensions. I was wondering if maybe there is a plugin or extension that would allow me to compile/debug vb.net projects in eclipse?
I ran into an issue today where VB is behaving differently from C#. The issue is as follows.
Also note this is for .Net 4.0.
Both projects are set to build in release mode Both projects are in the same solution The solution is set to build in release Both projects output to a Release folder in bin / obj
Everything seems to be okay except for one thing. When inspecting the files with a tool such as http://assemblyinformation.codeplex.com/ the VB projects show as Debug and the C# projects show as Release.
I tracked this down to a setting in the Advanced Compiler Options for the pdb files. If the debug info output for VB is set to anything other than none - then the project builds in debug mode (keep in mind it still outputs to the release folder). C# does not exhibit this behavior.
I did a blog post here to work around the issue - but would love to know the root cause if any one knows.
I am using Visual Studio 2008, .NET Framework 3.5.
Basically what I am trying to do is have my webpage project folder located directly on my local machine (ex. Local #1).Our database is located on a server (ex. Server #1). I am building my web applications on my local machine and then trying to debug them in Visual Studio 2008. Only every single time I click to debug my project I get a "Security Exception" error that looks something like the following.[code]...
Just got a little quirk with VS2008 on 1 solution.When i press F5 to debug my solution builds the current project but then insists on building all my setup projects...
This only occurs on 1 of my solutions and it has 20 projects within it.
I've checked startup projects and it has no dependancies and is set to selected project.
EDIT: Right click and debug in new instance works fine
ok so heres the scenario. Ive made an app in visual basic 2010 that calls another application in c:pinger 2.0. In the directory pinger 2.0 are many sub folders from 15-500 named 15-500. I have a button that does this:Shell("c:pinger 2.0" & TextBox1.Text & "pinger.exe")
so basically if i type 15 it launches c:pinger 2.015pinger.exe which works flawlessly however this pinger.exe requires a host file thats .txt based. My problem is when it launches pinger form subfolder 15 it cant locate the hosts.txt. To do a little troubleshooting i loaded the hosts.txt file in the same directory as my VB app and then it worked just fine but this is no good.the whole point of having different subfolders is because each sub has a different hosts.txt file.So what im experiencing is when i call pinger.exe its looking for the hosts.txt file in the root of the VB application and not the subfolder 15-500 is there a way to call a program and let it run from its original location so it will find the hosts.txt file in the correct subfolder?
i can upload my project if this mumbo jumbo has confused you, perhaps theres some ,vb"switch" i can run? like:Shell("c:pinger 2.0" & TextBox1.Text & "pinger.exe",vbrunwhereyoursupposedtoplease)
I've written a very simple form application that launches a bunch of shortcuts. There's one particular one I want to launch, but it's got a lot of switches with special characters. I can't figure out how to make the switches/arguments into a string so that VB2010 will pass it to the executible cleanly.. Here's what I did, I'm sure it's laughable, but I guess everyone starts somewhere:
Private Sub Button11_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button11.Click Dim MyString As String = ","/CitrixShortcut: (1) /QLaunch "CHCFarm:Citrix Console"" Process.Start("C:Program FilesCitrixICA Clientpnagent.exe",MyString) End Sub
I have a legacy vb6 application that uses a shell command to launch a newer .net application. It's a very simple command, just launches an app. Here's the problem. When I run the .net app through the shell command, it tries to connect to a database that is not referenced in it. If I double-click the .net executable, it runs just fine and connects the way it is supposed to. Normal, no problems. Only when I run it from the shell command do I have problems. I have checked everything I can think of and simply can not come up with a reason why the app would behave differently when launched from a shell command.
I'm trying to debug an application as I did before using vb6. Placed a break point in the code and run. when it hits the breakpoint I tried to modify the code but, it does not allow it.
I got a message saying Changes are not allowed in the following cases:When the debugger has been attached to an already running process The code being debugged was optimized at build or run time
The assembly being debugged is loaded as domain-neutral
The assembly being debugged was loaded through reflection
I am using 2005 and I am getting a ArgumentNullException when I try and debug my program. I have included the error and a piece of the code. I am not sure how to fix this error at all. If more of the code is needed I can post it.
Public Class MainForm Dim sPIServer As String 'PI Server Connection Storage Variable Dim myServer As PISDK.Server 'Variable to hold the server to work on[code].....
I have been trying to figure out how an application like GameSpy or GameRanger launches applications and is able to sync with other users(all joining together). I have been under the assumption that it was just simple command line switches being used. The more I look into it the more I don't think that is the case. I believe they are hooking into a game's API to do so. My question would be, using OllyDbg I was able to get the memory address of a Text display in the game(The game you are about to create's name).The default is "TEST SESH", and if you highlight the field and hit enter you can edit it. I was wondering if anyone could give me incite on how I could set this text through a DLL injection?
I am trying debug my program on a Windows 7 machine. My program reads a txt file using TextFieldParser
I get an error message when I try to open a file
Could not find file C:UsersBillDesktopprogram name TextFieldParserinDebugFileName.txt.ReadColumns
Code
Dim safeFileName As String = IO.Path.GetFileName(Me.OpenFileDialog1.FileName) Using myReader As New Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.TextFieldParser(safeFileName)
It doesnt get past the second line, which tells me there is something wrong with the way i am getting the file??
I am not getting the location of the file just the file name
What this program does is it it moves the firewall tab on my Zonealarm from Medium to High thru a 2 timers and I can put how long for it to say on High and how long to stay on Medium
When i debug the program and open it(inapp.exe) in notepad there a line
C:UsersendroitDocumentsVisual Studio 2008ProjectsDataTypeDataTypeobjDebugDataType.pdb
Well, is there any solution or way not to include that line when debug. I know that .pdb is important in debugging, but when the app published still there's that line. Can we disable it or there's no other way.
I am not exactly sure what I am doing wrong. I need to convert Me.xCommissionLabel.Text = Format(Me.xCommissionLabel.Text, "currency") to a toString, so it displays a dollar sign, 2 decimal places. so I did this. Me.xCommissionLabel.Text = commissionLabel.ToString(CType("C", IFormatProvider))When I run the program and input the data I get: A first chance exception of type 'System.InvalidCastException' occurred in Commission Project.exe. [code]
Follow up to Direct access to full string representation of object.
I am trying to log the contents of an object to a text file. I can get the property-value pairs I want to log by executing this line in the immediate window[code]...
i am using visual studio 2005 on win 7 with office 2007.i have developed win application. i am using microsoft activex spreadsheet component in my program. so it automatically creates reference to AxInterop.OWC11.dll But when i run program in debug mode (open program and click RUN in toolbar it works) it works. But if i run directly .exe (go to bin release doubleclick .exe) it gives error at loading point of that component. It says "Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory has been corrupted." An unhandled exception occurrs.AxInterop.OWC11.dll is in release directory.Is this office 2007 error or Win 7 ?
I am working on a project in Visual Basic .NET 2010 on Windows 7 SP1 that previously ran fine in Windows XP SP3 but has recently started crashing immediately upon running the executable. I have made several additions/changes since the last time it was tested on XP, so it is difficult to pinpoint what might be the problem. (I commented out all of the start form's _Load event, which causes the form to load with no events triggered in the IDE, but the program still crashes in XP, so I suspect it's something other than my code, though I don't know what else could have changed to trigger it.)
I've been having a bit of a problem using the while function.
Here is my code (Simplified): Dim RandomNumber3 As Random Dim RandomOutput3 As Integer
[CODE]..............
When running the debug, the program crashes, and when I step into the program, I find that this While statement becomes an infinite loop. This is a program that uses random number generators to assign a value to something, and this while statement is necessary so that there is never two of the same values showing (RandomOutput, RandomOutput2 & RandomOutput) Have to be different to one another.
Simple question that does not seem to be covered: If I use a lot of Debug.WriteLine statements in my code, will they be completely absent in my production version?
I mean: Is the compiler smart enough to not emit any code for those calls? Or would I have to surround them by #if DEBUG..#end if directives?
when i attempt to debug a program in visual basic studio 08 the black screen dissapears immediatly and i cannot read anything that appears. not sure if it is an option or a bug, but it makes the system relatively useless.
I have o problem on my codes sqldr = sqlcmd.ExecuteReader when i debug the program error says ExecuteReader requires an open and available Connection. The connection's current state is closed. i dont know what its means that error..
