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Strider007
Strider007

Reputation: 4975

Debugging in Visual Studio

what is the difference between start Debugging and Start Without Debugging in Visual Studio while running a program ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 350

Answers (3)

Rob Windsor
Rob Windsor

Reputation: 6859

The former attaches the debugger, the latter does not. You use the latter if you want to run in the same way an end user would.

Upvotes: 1

Marcelo Cantos
Marcelo Cantos

Reputation: 186068

The first option starts the program under the control of Visual Studio's debugger. The second option starts the program stand-alone. Some of the practical differences while debugging a process are:

  1. You can pause, resume, stop and restart the debugged process from Visual Studio.
  2. Breakpoints defined in the code will be active for a debugged process, and the debugger will pause the process and show a stack trace whenever the process hits one of them.
  3. You cannot exit Visual Studio without stopping the debugged process.
  4. When a debugged console process exits, it will display a termination message until you press a key. This allows you to inspect the output of a just-ended process without having the console window immediately disappear on you.

Upvotes: 4

tenfour
tenfour

Reputation: 36896

the answer seems obvious, especially if you just try it :)

"Start without debugging" starts your app but doesn't attach visual studio as the debugger. "Start debugging" starts your app, with visual studio attached as the debugger.

Upvotes: 0

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