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You're going to think I'm either lying or nuts, but neither is the case. I installed VS2008 PRO on a Windows 7 x64 machine and all the debugging commands are missing. There's no debug toolbar and no Debug.* commands under Tools\Options\keyboard.

How do I get the debug functionality working?

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Try running this from the command line:

devenv /resetskippkgs
Ben Hoffstein
Sorry, Ben. That doesn't work either. It seems like the installer really didn't include any debugging related functionality. I'm going to try a reinstall.
Charles
Okay, hope the reinstall works for you. If not post back and we'll get medieval on it.
Ben Hoffstein
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It's probably because you chose wrong presets when VS first started. I got that thing wrong too (or something just bugged..).

You can get them back (one by one) by right-clicking on a toolbar and choosing "Customize". There you can customize both toolbars and menus. You can also drag the commands onto both menus and toolbars. Commands are available in the second tab (going from memory here :) and are divided into several subcategories.

There are also several highly useful commands, like "Exceptions..." where you can finetune if and on which exceptions the integrated debugger will break immediately as they're thrown.

Pasi Savolainen
The toolbar Customize dialog doesn't contain a "Debug" category. So manually rebuilding the menus and toolbars won't work. Thanks.
Charles
Are you sure you installed the C# or C++ component then? The shell may be installed without these components and used for accessing TFS etc.
Pasi Savolainen
Yes, I really did install both C# and C++.
Charles
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I can't explain why it happened, but a full uninstall/reinstall fixed the issue

Charles