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Debugging multiple projects under VS2012 - Main project invokes a sub-project

I have a solution that has 2 projects. The main one and the one that is called with CreateProcess() from the main program.

The main one is a win32 program and the second a console application. I use the win32 program to invoke the console app and have it do its thing. My problem is, I want to be able to debug the console app once it's invoked with CreateProcess.

How can I accomplish this? or Can I accomplish this?

I'm also a little confused with the Debugger API as I want Visual Studio to be the debugger, instead of me creating the debugger.

Solution

  • Call DebugBreak(); at the start of the console process. When it hits that call you will be able to start a new instance of Visual Studio to debug the console process.