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Uma Shankar Subramani
Uma Shankar Subramani

Reputation: 2015

Unable to Debug my Add-in solultion

I am working with Add-ins for the past 10 months. I have not faced problem like this before. When I try to debug my Addin Solution in Visual Studio 2008, I get the following error. Could anyone please help?

A project with Output Type of Class Library cannot be started directly.

In order to debug this project, add an executable project to this solution which references the library project. Set the executable project as the startup project.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 883

Answers (1)

Sneal
Sneal

Reputation: 2586

The error makes sense, you need a hosting process for you addin, e.g. Visual Studio. I usually follow this workflow when debugging my VS addins:

  1. Build your addin library in VisualStudio instance A.
  2. Start VisualStudio instance B.
  3. Load the Addin in VS instance B
  4. In VS instance A, go to Debug | Attach to Process. Select the VS instance B process and attach your debugger.

Once you've done this you can set breakpoints etc just like any other process.

Upvotes: 1

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