MSVC 2008: Cannot View Reigsters or Memory with Native Code

Question

I am having trouble viewing the registers and memory in Visual Studio 2008. I am working with native code with no CLR. I have tried the following:

>Debug.Registers
Command "Debug.Registers" is not available.
Ctrl+Alt G
>Debug.Memory1
Command "Debug.Memory1" is not available.
Ctrl+Alt+M 1
The key command (Ctrl+Alt+M, 1) is currently bound to (Memory &1) which is currently not available.

However, this will work:

>Debug.ListRegisters
EAX = 0023FC98 EBX = 7FFDF000 ECX = 00000000 EDX = 000E21A8 ESI = 00000000 
EDI = 0023FCC4 EIP = 0113D6C8 ESP = 0023FBA4 EBP = 0023FCC4 EFL = 00000202 
0023FC80 = 00000009 
>Debug.ListMemory
0x0113D6C8  8b 45 bc 50 8b 4d c8 51 68 a6 b9 13 01 8b 55 b0  .E.P.MÈQh¦....U°

I would like more control over the memory locations. I would like to change my locations rather than just have them listed in the command window.

In VS2005 I was able to have a to go to View->Other Windows->Registers. Is this feature not available in VS2008?

Answer 1

If anyone runs across this question and has a similar problem it turned out that my default settings were for Visual Basic. Even though I was developing in native C++, most of the native debugging tools were unavailable. Once my default settings were reverted back to C/C++ everything worked as expected. Not only were the register and memory settings unavailable they were not present within the debugger toolbar.

To reset your settings go to Tools->Export Import Settings and navigate to reset.