Hi,

I've just finished my first experiments with VS2005, C#, .Net.

Now I want to start a new project from scratch, but debugging does not
seem to work as advertised. I'm targeting a Dell Axim x51v Pocket PC
connected to my developer machine through USB, ActiveSync 4.1.

The symbol for my breakpoint turns from a big, filled, red dot into an
outlined dot with an exclamation mark - somewhere during the rebuild,
deploy, start-up cycle.

Help in the tooltip seems to suggest I do not have debugging symbols or
information, but I am sure I have set my Configuration to 'Debug'. Any
suggestions? I got a nagging feeling that I'm overlooking something very
obvious, but I'm out of options now. Hints much appreciated,

cheers,
Sandor

SOLVED (was: ...start new project, no debugging info?!?) by Sandor

Sandor
Sun Sep 17 13:05:48 CDT 2006

Sandor Spruit wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just finished my first experiments with VS2005, C#, .Net.
>
> Now I want to start a new project from scratch, but debugging does not
> seem to work as advertised. I'm targeting a Dell Axim x51v Pocket PC
> connected to my developer machine through USB, ActiveSync 4.1.
>
> The symbol for my breakpoint turns from a big, filled, red dot into an
> outlined dot with an exclamation mark - somewhere during the rebuild,
> deploy, start-up cycle.
>
> Help in the tooltip seems to suggest I do not have debugging symbols or
> information, but I am sure I have set my Configuration to 'Debug'. Any
> suggestions? I got a nagging feeling that I'm overlooking something very
> obvious, but I'm out of options now. Hints much appreciated,

This turned out to be a versioning issue. Brilliantly disguised as some
other problem through the use of to-the-point error messages </sarcasm>.
Somehow, my PDA had a different version of the .Net compact framework.
Visual Studio and the PDA were no longer compatible. Found the answer in
the newsgroup on debugging.

Sandor