Why does my Visual Studio 2005 detach from the process when I start the debugger?

Question

I'm using VS2005 to develop a web application. When I start debugging it will open the web page but the immediately detach from the process. I have found that if I close the IDE and start it back up it will work fine for a while but then start detaching again. Any insight into this odd behaviour would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Are you using IE8? I ran into a similar issue recently, after installing IE8. It turns out IE8 uses multiple processes and Visual Studio doesn't know which process to attach to. The registry fix in this article remedied the issue for me.