Why VM Debugger in Visual Studio 2008 throws "unable to detected startup project"?

Question

Hello,

I have a problem with VM-Debugger in Visual Studio 2008 (VMWare Workstation 6.5.3). Always when i try to Start the VM-debugging the debugger tells me the following:

Error: Unable to detect the current startup project.

I only have one startup-project but there are several other projects are in my solution.

The debugger-log says only this:

27.10.2009 14:35:29: 
27.10.2009 14:35:29: Debugging started...
27.10.2009 14:35:29: ERROR: pEnumerator->Reset()
27.10.2009 14:35:29: An error occurred in .\Connect.cpp at line 2369.
27.10.2009 14:35:29: ERROR: FindProject(pEV, startupName, pProject)
27.10.2009 14:35:29: An error occurred in .\Connect.cpp at line 2412.
27.10.2009 14:35:30: Error: Unable to detect the current startup project.
27.10.2009 14:35:30: ERROR: DoStart()
27.10.2009 14:35:30: An error occurred in .\Connect.cpp at line 549.

The logs of VMWARE-Workstation-Program say nothing that seems like an error.

I already have tried to build a new solution and add my existing projects, but the same effect appears. I already have re-installed the vmware-visual-studio-plugin. There was noch change.

Do you perhaps know what's the problem and how it could be fixed.

Greetings, Martin

Answer 1

"One more minor note: If you install VMWare 6.5, it will re-map F6 to "Start debugging in a virtual machine," causing an "Unable to detect the current startup project" error dialog to appear. To correct this, re-map F6 back to Build.BuildSolution. "

(taken from http://mark.michaelis.net/Blog/VisualStudioKeyboardShortcutsForCompilingMSDNFlashDec292008.aspx)

Maybe this will be helpful.