2005 project conflicting with 2003

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Jack Russell

I have a project developed under VS2005 on one PC. If I move the exe
file and dlls to another PC which has VS2003 installed plus framework 2
When I try to run the exe (by clicking on the exe) it asks me which 2003
debugger I want to use. Whatever answer I give it does not work!
I built the exe as a "release". Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong.
 
I have a project developed under VS2005 on one PC. If I move the exe
file and dlls to another PC which has VS2003 installed plus framework
2 When I try to run the exe (by clicking on the exe) it asks me which
2003 debugger I want to use. Whatever answer I give it does not work!
I built the exe as a "release". Can someone tell me what I am doing
wrong.
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Release DLLs don't have debugging symbols, so debugging a release binary
will fail.
 
Spam said:
Release DLLs don't have debugging symbols, so debugging a release binary
will fail.
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Sorry, can you expand that. I am not trying to debug, I just want to run it.
 
Jack said:
Sorry, can you expand that. I am not trying to debug, I just want to run
it.
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Its Ok I had not copied all the dlls over. Surely .net could tell you
that was the problem as it does if the framework is not present!
 
Its Ok I had not copied all the dlls over. Surely .net could tell you
that was the problem as it does if the framework is not present!
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..NET probably did:
I have a project developed under VS2005 on one PC. If I move the exe
file and dlls to another PC which has VS2003 installed plus framework
2 When I try to run the exe (by clicking on the exe) it asks me which
2003 debugger I want to use. <---------
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If you cancelled the debugger request, a crash message with the stack trace
would have shown up.

However, you tried to debug a release DLL with no debug symbols nothing was
debugged (probably only hex code). Are you familiar with the difference
between release and debug binaries? I can't find a good link explaining the
difference bug suffice to say debug builds contain information required for
debugging while release builds do not. Release builds also run faster than
debug builds :-)
 
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