C Debug - cannot start debugging because the debug target is missing

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I am fairly new to C     I am using Visual Studio 12  the source I am using was last edited in VS 12   But my problem is that it s throwing me this error     First of all  my computer username isn t Martin  it is Administratoring - The creator of this project is Martin   So that s where I guess it s coming from  but I don t know how to fix this   I have tried editing in Project   Properties   Build   Output Path - And it still doesn t work  I am not too familiar with C   and I ve spent some time searching up for a solution but can t find it anywhere   Probably because I don t know what I should be searching up  I ve tried searching keywords and quotes from the error  but still nothing

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In my case I had added a project to a solution manually, where that project was targeting a higher .NET version than the rest of the projects that were referencing it. Strange... there would normally be a somewhat more verbose, literal and descriptive error in such cases.

There wasn't a real error but there was a warning that said as much.

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Switch Target framework to 4 5 2 or something higher and bring it back to your original version  example  4 5  then when you build  it will work

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I also get this error quite often   I solve this by modifying the code  doing a very small change   saving it  then building the solution again

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Please try with the steps below    Right click on the Visual Studio Project - Properties - Debug -  Start Action section  - select  Start project  radio button  Right click on the Visual Studio Project - Properties - Debug -  Enable Debuggers section  - mark  Enable the Visual Studio hosting process  Save changes Ctrl   Shift   S  and run the project again    P S  I experienced the same problem when I was playing with the options to redirect the console input   output to text file and have selected the option Properties - Debug -  Start Action section  - Start external program  When I moved the Solution to another location on my computer the problem occurred because it was searching for an absolute path to the executable file  Restoring the Visual Studio Project default settings  see above  fixed the problem  For your reference I am using Visual Studio 2013 Professional

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I had the same problems  I had to change file rights  Unmark  read only  in their properties

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I had the same problem and unfortunately non of above answers worked for me   the solution that worked for me is    right click on your startup project and select Properties - Debug and change  start external program    to the correct path  Done

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Try these    Make sure that output path of project is correct  Project   Properties   Build   Output path  Go in menu to Build   Configuration Manager  and check if your main entry project has checked Build  If not  check it

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For those with this kind of problem - another solution  Pay attention also to Warnings when you build solution  For example  I had referenced a dll built with higher version of  NET  4 5 2  than my main project  4 5  After I referenced a dll built with 4 0 build process was successful

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You are not set the startup project so only this error occur  Mostly this problem occur when your working with more project in the single solution   First right click on your project and  Set as Start Up Project  and or right click on the start up file inside the sleeted project and click  Set StartUp File

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Go to Project   properties   Debug Tab and set the Launch to  Project

[c#] C# Debug - cannot start debugging because the debug target is missing

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