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Disable msvsmon timeout from the command line

I'm doing remote debugging regularly thanks to Visual Studio 2010's msvsmon tool. I used to set the timeout to zero in the options screen, as I just want the tool to keep running until I'm done with it:

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This works fine, but I grew tired of doing this everyday and I'm trying to do it from a script, using the appropriate command line switch:

msvsmon.exe /timeout:0

But no cigar:

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I can work around this by setting a ridiculously long timeout, but I'm just checking: is there a proper way to disable this timeout from the command line? Or maybe with a registry key?

Solution

  • Well if there's no proper way, I guess the best is just to use the maximum allowed, which seems to be the maximum of a signed integer, minus one:

    msvsmon.exe /timeout:2147483646

    That leaves more than 68 years of remote debugging, should be enough for me!