Does Edit and Continue work in VS2005?

Does Edit and Continue work in VS2005?

• Takezo

  Perhaps the issues you are experiencing have something to do with the process of importing your project, can you try to recreate the project from scratch and manually add the files it needs to see if this resolves
  
  

• ghe

  In your linker settings as pasted above i notice there is no /PDB option, you cant edit and continue unless there is a "program database for edit and continue"

  So check your linker options under "Linker->Debugging", "Generate program database file", this entry should be "$(TargetDir)$(TargetName).pdb"

  There are several other linker options which may disable edit and continue (as listed in the help docs)

  ie:

  The following linker options disable Edit and Continue:

  • Setting /OPT:REF, /OPT:ICF, or /INCREMENTAL:NO disables Edit and Continue with the following warning:

    LINK : warning LNK4075: ignoring /EDITANDCONTINUE due to /OPT

    specification

  • Setting /ORDER, /RELEASE, or /FORCE disables Edit and Continue with this warning:

    LINK : warning LNK4075: ignoring /INCREMENTAL due to /option

    specification

  • Setting any option that prevents the creation of a program database (.pdb) file disables Edit and Continue with no specific warning.

  
  

• MarkTsai

  thanks for your reply

  unfortunately, I have all these options set, but still can't E&C...
  

  
  

• Mike75

  In my case, F5 just continues execution after the breakpoint. In order for any changes to be applied, I usually need to do an Alt-F10 (at least that's what I do in VS6) - in VS2005, the same keystrokes don't work (for me), as the menu item (Debug->Apply Code Changes) is greyed out.
  

  
  

• James N

  Appreciate your comments, thanks.

  
  

  My original posting had an error in that I forgot to add the pdb option, but I think it was because I had been playing around with various options b4 posting - however, even with generating the pdb again, there is still no E&C - the option is greyed out whenever I hit a breakpoint.
  

  
  

  Compiler:
  

  /Od /D "_DEBUG" /D "_WIN32_WINNT=0x0500" /D "WINVER=0x0500" /D "WIN32" /D "_WINDOWS" /D "_VC80_UPGRADE=0x0600" /D "_AFXDLL" /D "_MBCS" /Gm /EHsc /RTC1 /MDd /Gy /Yu"stdafx.h" /Fp".\MyProj.pch" /Fo /Fd /FR /W3 /nologo /c /ZI /TP /errorReport:prompt

  Linker:
  

  /OUT:".\MyProj.exe" /NOLOGO /MANIFEST:NO /DEBUG /PDB:".\MyProj.pdb"
  /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS /OPT:NOREF /OPT:NOICF /MACHINE:X86 /ERRORREPORT:PROMPT
  

  
  

• Urban Terror target

  Usually i just make my edits, then press F5 to continue, ive never noticed a menu option for this.
  Does pressing F5 work for you
  
  

• Astennu

  Yes it does work, check you have set your project properties like so:
  
  Assume your program is called "HelloWorld"
  1) Goto Project->HelloWorld Properties
  2) On the left expand "Configuration Properties"
  3) Expand "C/C++"
  4) On the left, Select "General"
  5) On the right, change "Debug Information Format" to "Program Database For Edit And Continue (/ZI)"
  5) On the left, Select "Optimization"
  6) On the right, change "Optimization" to "Disabled (/Od)"
  7) On the left, expand "Linker"
  8) On the left, select "Debugging"
  9) On the right, change "Generate Debug Info" to "Yes"
  10) Click ok
  11) Set your breakpoints
  12) Rebuild your application
  
  

• Yang Tono

  The issue is being discussed now at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=873780&SiteID=1

  Thanks,

  Ayman Shoukry

  VC++ Team

  
  
  
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