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visual-studio-2008debuggingvisual-studio-debugging
THX-1138
THX-1138

Reputation: 21730

VS2008 : Start an external program on Debug

I have a solution with three projects:

  1. is a console (GUI app) for a device connected through Serial Port.
  2. Serial Port emulation (console app, self-hosted WCF service).
  3. Common interfaces.

To debug, I start SerialPortEmulator and then debug (F5) the main project.

Two problems:

  1. It takes extra keystrokes to start the emulator.
  2. I need to remember to stop the emulator before compiling (in case there are breaking changes).

Question: Ideally I want to have emulator project be started on debug, and terminated on debug-stop. Is there easy way to do that?

I could have the emulator in a different solution, but then I need to ensure the interfaces definition library is always in sync.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 460

Answers (1)

Shay Erlichmen
Shay Erlichmen

Reputation: 31928

You can try to write a macro to catch the OnEnterRunMode 

Private Sub DebuggerEvents_OnEnterRunMode(ByVal Reason As EnvDTE.dbgEventReason) _
    Handles DebuggerEvents.OnEnterRunMode

    // Run emulator here
End Sub

As for the clean of stop, have a look at my previous answer (Executing clean up code when debugging stops)

Upvotes: 1

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