" Attach to Process " in Visual Studio 2005

Question

I installed Visual Studio 2005 ( with SP1 ) and made the default settings as what is required for C++ .

Now i open a solution and run the exe . Under " Tools " menu item i go and Select " Attach the process " and i attach it to the exe i just ran . I put breakpoints several places in the code ( this breakpoints looks enabled ) and these are the places where the breakpoints should definitely be hit . But for some reason , my breakpoints are not hit .

PS : All pdb's are present in correct location .

Is there any setting i am missing .

Answer 1

Are you in Debug mode? I've had this problem when I was trying to do it in Release mode. It doesn't complain, it just doesn't hit the breakpoints.

Answer 2

Use the Modules view to see if your exe/dll is loaded, and if not, to specify where to load the PDB from.

Answer 3

yeah i forgot to mention that i am in debug mode . And as you said , it doesn't complain .

Answer 4

Thanks Ishmaeel . I set it to " Native " and it worked . :-)