Visual Studio Debugging Error Message

Question

I am new to visual basic, I downloaded a trial Visual Studio 2010. When I created new project and choose viual basic, windows application it ask me to give it a name, but there is no button like Save Type as and browse buttons to choose the location to save my project as in my school lab  I noticed that, but I clicked ok, Though, I continue with my program, I got from1.vb and codepart.vb for the project I was working on. when I try to click debug to run my small program, I got an error message says, " Visual studio can not start debugging becuase debug target C:/users/myusername/Appdata/local/Temporary/Projects/myprojectname/bin/Debug/myprojectname.exe is missing, please build the project and retry or set the outputpath and assembly Name properties appropriately to point to correct location for the target assembly. by the way in the school lab I do not have this trouble. please,  if you could help?

Best Regards,

DreamSparkTester

Answer 1

You may want to try posting your question to the Visual Studio General Questions forum.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/visualstudiogeneral/threads

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Answer 2

Hi,

Welcome to the MSDN forum!

Visual studio can not start debugging becuase debug target C:/users/myusername/Appdata/local/Temporary/Projects/myprojectname/bin/Debug/myprojectname.exe is missing, please build the project and retry or set the outputpath and assembly Name properties appropriately to point to correct location for the target assembly,

Make sure that output path of project is correct (Project > Properties > Build > Output path)

Go in menu to Build > Configuration Manager, and check if your project has checked Build. If not, check it.

Please Clean and Rebuild your app.

Please reset your VS settings, and then create a new project, check it again.

Reference:

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/526352/visual-studio-cannot-start-debugging-because-the-debug-target-is-missing

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Answer 3

Thanks, Zhai

That's sounds helpful, where do I find the Configuration Manager?

Answer 4

Hi,

On the Build menu in your VS IDE, choose Configuration Manager. If the project is to be included when you build this solution build configuration, select the Build check box.

Best Regards,

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