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"The debugger is not properly installed"

I too have been a victim of this dreaded problem, likely caused by installing and uninstalling various beta versions of .NET 2.0 frameworks and tools. A great post by Gregg Miskelly (a dev on the VS debugger team) offered tons of promising looking tips, none of which worked. (note: Does anyone know how to interpret the output of DebuggerDiagnostics.exe?).

Of course, Setup - removing, repairing, or reinstalling - all failed. Finally, I just deleted all the files in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7Debug (stop the Machine Debug Service first), copied fresh ones from my MSDN DVD, and restarted the service. Bingo.

 

Posted: Mar 24 2005, 05:11 PM by keithpleas | with 5 comment(s)
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TrackBack said:

^_^,Pretty Good!
# April 10, 2005 8:06 AM

Moussa said:

My Microsoft Visual 2003 give me the  messege

"The debugger is not properly installed, run setup to install or repair the debugger"

plz I need help to solve this problem

# October 22, 2009 6:29 AM

Install Software said:

Another great post.

Thanks for the tips and help.

Everyone, bookmark this site.

# February 6, 2010 4:53 AM

Install Software said:

Another great post.

Thanks for the tips and help.

Everyone, bookmark this site.

# February 6, 2010 5:13 AM

weblogs.asp.net said:

395844.. May I repost it? :)

# June 1, 2011 9:45 AM
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