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Visual Studio cannot start debugging because the debug target is missing

Sometimes you lose a lot of time finding the most idiot problems. Last week I had to do a code review so I downloaded the solution from Team Foundation Service and opened it. First I wanted to try to run the application but it failed with the following error message:


“Visual Studio cannot start debugging because the debug target 'D:\dev\ApplicationToReview\bin\Debug\ApplicationToReview.exe' is missing. Please build the project and retry, or set the OutputPath and AssemblyName properties appropriately to point at the correct location for the target assembly.”

Ok. So I rebuild the project a few times, had a look at the output folders only to see that the required assembly was definitely there. In the end I noticed that although the current project was set as the start up project but it was not configured to run in the Configuration Manager.

After checking the project under configuration manager everything worked fine.

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